Almost all modern applications have a splash screen. Using a splash screen is a way to advertise your product. It is also used to indicate to the user that something is happening in your application ...

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 ...

The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Ease of use is a frequently cited mantra in software that is meant to reduce human drudgery and tedium. Unfortunately, much of the software in the market is often unfriendly to first-time or casual ...