[Tutorial] How To Add a GUI

Difficulty: 2/10

Required: A Brain, Knowledge of Copy+Paste

Okay, First thing is first. I know i hate looking at the black box with the white letters thinking to myself i wanted to make an irc bot not read the *censored*ing matrix, so i'm sure you all would probably like to have something a little neater to look at when you need to check your bots status.

Basically this whole guide is copying and pasting to save time for both me and you.

First what your going to do is make a new class named GUI

inside GUI class copy and paste this

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class GUI extends javax.swing.JFrame {
 
    /** Creates new form GUI */
    public GUI() {
        initComponents();
    }
 
    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
    public void initComponents() {
 
        Title = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        ChatLog = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
 
        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
 
        Title.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Kristen ITC", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        Title.setText("CHANGE THIS TO THE TITLE OF YOUR BOT");
        ChatLog.setColumns(20);
                
        ChatLog.setRows(5);
                ChatLog.setEditable(false);
                ChatLog.append("\n");
                jScrollPane1.setViewportView(ChatLog);
                
        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.TRAILING, layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap(211, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addComponent(Title, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 350, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                .addGap(190, 190, 190))
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addGap(19, 19, 19)
                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 711, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                .addContainerGap(21, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addComponent(Title)
                .addGap(18, 18, 18)
                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 246, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addContainerGap())
        );
        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents
 
    /**
    * Starts the GUI components of this bot
    */
    public void ShowComponents() {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new GUI().setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }
 
    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    public static javax.swing.JTextArea ChatLog;
    private javax.swing.JLabel Title;
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
 
}

Save and exit or if you have Notepad ++ open up MyBot Class

under

public class MyBot extends PircBot {

add

static GUI currentGUI = new GUI();

next you're going to find

public MYBot() {

and add

currentGUI.ShowComponents();

okay now above the last } in public mybot you are going to add this

@Override
     public void log(String line) {
          currentGUI.ChatLog.append(line + "\n");
          currentGUI.ChatLog.setCaretPosition(currentGUI.ChatLog.getText().length());
}

and there you have it a nice little gui to have you're bot show on. for anyone with onMessage or anything like that who wants it logged you would do

@Override
   public void onMessage(String channel, String sender, String login, String hostname, String message) {
                     log(message);
}

Thanks

Bo The Pro

MSN: Bstephenson7@hotmail.com

Feedback is great.

Last Updated Wednesday, May 12 2010 @ 02:32 PM CDT|932 Hits

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