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Luke_A_Somers comments on Group Rationality Diary, May 16-31 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 16 May 2013 10:38:20PM 0 points [-]

What are you using to program the UI?

I've had my UI-design experiences vary from easy (webapps via servlets and jsp, Hypercard), to easy so long as I was trying to do exactly what it was made for (Java with Swing), to so obnoxious that I gave up (C with GTK UI elements).

Comment author: CAE_Jones 18 May 2013 08:28:41AM 0 points [-]

I've tried it two different ways, but the one that seems best is Java via Swing (the other approach involved me needing to build an imageIO library from scratch, which would just be silly). Making Swing accessible, though, is rarely worth attempting, so I was hoping to make liberal use of shortcut keys, spoken feedback and component titles.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 18 May 2013 11:34:51AM 0 points [-]

Really? I'd think that routing things through subclasses of AbstractAction and then hooking them up as Listener to the various access methods would make it comparatively straightforward.