Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His point: ...

I have a program I am writing in C++. While it could easily be a terminal program, I would like to also make some interface windows, nothing spectacular, just a title screen, a window full of command ...

Java technology is based on two main concepts: a programming language and a virtual processor. Once the Java source code is compiled, the binary output – the bytecode – is executed by a standardized ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a de-facto standard, that "compliance ...

This is likely one of the announcements everyone has been waiting to hear. The question has come up lots in the past while. "When or will BlackBerry ever support OpenGL graphics?" Let us wonder no ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

I've had an idea for a game bouncing around in my head for a while now. As I've currently got it in my head, it would be almost entirely menu-based. (Think something along the lines of the Football ...