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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

You're reading from   Java 9 Programming Blueprints Master features like modular programming, Java HTTP 2.0, and REPL by building numerous applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460196
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Lee Jason Lee
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Processes in Java 3. Duplicate File Finder 4. Date Calculator 5. Sunago - A Social Media Aggregator 6. Sunago - An Android Port 7. Email and Spam Management with MailFilter 8. Photo Management with PhotoBeans 9. Taking Notes with Monumentum 10. Serverless Java 11. DeskDroid - A Desktop Client for Your Android Phone 12. What is Next?

Building the graphical user interface

For our GUI, we'd like to expose the same type of functionality as the command line, but, obviously, with a nice graphical interface. For this, we'll again reach for JavaFX. We'll give the user a means to select, using a chooser dialog, the directories to be searched, and a field by which to add the search patterns. Once the duplicates have been identified, we will display them in a list for the user to peruse. All of the duplicate groups will be listed and, when clicked, the files in that group will be displayed in another list. The user can right-click on the list and choose to either view the file (or files) or delete it (or them). When we are finished, the application will look like this:

Let's start by creating our project. In NetBeans, go to File | New Project and select Maven | JavaFX Application. You can name it...

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