Looking for suggestions to create a graphical user interface. Swing?

Hi there,
I am considering developing this as a side-project, therefore wish to know how much work will be involved (ie. if I have time to complete it).
The situation. I have an online game that I play. It allows access to data using text files,that are updated on an hourly basis. These text files are generally a number of MB in size (containing details for players: Id, name, tribe, score, and other ranking-related data). I wish to access these text files, then - using the data contained within them - create a graphical map-like interface.
Features of the map:
- scrolling (or changing view in some other way)
- tool-tips when highlighting over certain elements?
- contains graphics, located on a web server (or I can easily download these to use locally)
Questions:
(1) Am I able to run background processes in some way, on a Windows machine, to automatically update the data?
(2) Would it be best to save objects to a file - then load them when the program is run, or actually save the data to a local database? What DBMS do you recommend, and what classes should I look at to find out more about interacting with databases?
(3) I have not written a graphical-based application before using Java. I have heard a little about Swing. Is this the only GUI designer I should look in to, or are there others? Please give me names, I can start researching from there. The GUI would need to support something similar to the map I described above.
If you require more information, let me know. As far as I know I am not allowed to post the link to the game here, however if you need to have a look at it to understand the problem I will do so.
Regards,
shano

shano wrote:
Hi there,
I am considering developing this as a side-project, therefore wish to know how much work will be involved (ie. if I have time to complete it).We likely can't answer this question.
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The situation. I have an online game that I play. It allows access to data using text files,that are updated on an hourly basis. These text files are generally a number of MB in size (containing details for players: Id, name, tribe, score, and other ranking-related data). I wish to access these text files, then - using the data contained within them - create a graphical map-like interface.
When you say "map" do you mean a map in the "traditional" sense - with cities and land and such?
Features of the map:
- scrolling (or changing view in some other way)
- tool-tips when highlighting over certain elements?
- contains graphics, located on a web server (or I can easily download these to use locally)
Questions:
(1) Am I able to run background processes in some way, on a Windows machine, to automatically update the data?Java or your OS provides this, yes.
(2) Would it be best to save objects to a file - then load them when the program is run, or actually save the data to a local database? What DBMS do you recommend, and what classes should I look at to find out more about interacting with databases?It depends - are you just loading these objects into main memory when you fire up your program? If so, serializing them out to a file is find. If you're going to be doing queries and updates while your program is running then using a DB would likely be a Good Thing. Check out [hypersonic |http://hsqldb.org/] and the [JDBC tutorial|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/]
(3) I have not written a graphical-based application before using Java. I have heard a little about Swing. Is this the only GUI designer I should look in to, or are there others? Please give me names, I can start researching from there. The GUI would need to support something similar to the map I described above.Swing is a set of GUI components, not a GUI designer. There are others (SWT comes to mind). Google can likely help you out more than I can. I suspect most GUI widget sets will supply a "blank" component that you can paint your map on.
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If you require more information, let me know. As far as I know I am not allowed to post the link to the game here, however if you need to have a look at it to understand the problem I will do so.
Regards,
shano

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