UiBooster is a lean library to create fast and easy dialogs for utility tools. It equips your applications blazing fast with GUI components to increase the comfort for your users.
It's based on Java swing components to run on current JREs without any struggle. This library encapsulates the long and sometimes complicated GUI code and leaves more clarity in your project.
I decided to create this project, because I missed something like zenity for my Java applications.
If you like this project, and you want to keep me awake π€ͺ, please:
- Information dialogs
- Text input dialog
- Confirmation dialog
- Password input dialog
- Selection dialog
- Multiple selection dialog
- Slider dialog
- Colorpicker
- FontChooser
- Datepicker
- File and directory selection dialogs
- Text area dialog
- HTML text dialog
- Exception dialog
- List dialog
- Login dialog
- Waiting dialog
- Progress dialog
- Table dialog
- Gallery dialog
- Form dialog
- Splash screen
- System tray menu
- Notification
new UiBooster().showInfoDialog("UiBooster is a lean library to ....");
new UiBooster().showWarningDialog("Your computer has a low battery ....", "WARN");
new UiBooster().showErrorDialog("The connection to SQL database is failed.", "ERROR");
String opinion = new UiBooster().showTextInputDialog("What do you think?");
new UiBooster().showConfirmDialog(
"Do you really want this action?",
"Are you sure?",
() -> System.out.println("Action accepted"),
() -> System.out.println("Action declined"));
String password = booster.showPasswordDialog("Whats your password?", "Password");
String selection = new UiBooster().showSelectionDialog(
"What's your favorite movie?",
"Favorite Movie?",
Arrays.asList("Pulp Fiction", "Bambi", "The Godfather", "Hangover"));
List<String> selectedElement = new UiBooster().showMultipleSelection(
"What are your favorite hobbies?",
"Your hobbies",
"Reading", "Traveling", "Fishing", "Music", "Gardening", "Sport", "Television",
"Video Games", "Crafting", "Bird Watching", "Collecting");
Integer numberOfHotDogs = new UiBooster().showSlider("How many HotDogs do you want?", "Your order",
0, 10, 2, 5, 1);
Color selectedColor = new UiBooster().showColorPicker("Choose your favorite color", "Color picking");
library by @dheid: colorpicker
Font selectedFont = new UiBooster().showFontChooser("Choose your favorite font", "Font choosing");
library by @dheid: fontchooser
Date birthday = new UiBooster().showDatePicker("What's your birthday?", "Birthday");
UiBooster booster = new UiBooster();
File file = booster.showFileSelection();
File directory = booster.showDirectorySelection();
File fileOrDirectory = booster.showFileOrDirectorySelection();
new UiBooster().showTextArea("Want to read some lorem ipsum?", "Message for you",
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ...",
10, 40, false);
);
new UiBooster().showHtmlText("My menu", "Menu overview",
"<h1>π Menu</h1>"
"<ul>"
"<li>π Pizza </li>"
"<li>π Cheeseburger</li>"
"<li>π₯ Caesar-Salat</li>"
"</ul>");
new UiBooster().showException(
"An error occurred",
"Exception message",
new Exception("Something went wrong ...")
);
ListElement selectedElement = new UiBooster().showList(
"Select a robot",
"Avatars from RoboHash.org",
element -> System.out.println("Selected: " element.toString()),
new ListElement("Robo 1", "Green and strong", "src/test/resources/avatar1.png"),
new ListElement("Robo 2", "Shy without an avatar!"),
new ListElement("Robo 3", "- Crazy\n- Fast\n- Funny", "src/test/resources/avatar2.png"),
new ListElement("Robo 4", null, "src/test/resources/avatar3.png")
);
LoginCredentials credentials = new UiBooster().showLogin(
"Login",
"Internal area",
"Username",
"Password",
"Go",
"Cancel");
WaitingDialog dialog = new UiBooster().showWaitingDialog("Starting", "Please wait");
dialog.setMessage("Ready");
dialog.close();
WaitingDialog dialog = new UiBooster().showWaitingDialog("Starting", "Please wait");
dialog.setMessage("Initializing");
dialog.setLargeMessage("Some more information...\nMaybe from log files or other resources. \nBe transparent to the user to understand long processes...");
dialog.close();
ProgressDialog dialog = new UiBooster().showProgressDialog("Please wait", "Waiting", 0, 120);
dialog.setProgress(10);
// ...
dialog.setProgress(120);
dialog.setMessage("Ready");
dialog.close();
String[][] modifiedData = new UiBooster().showTable( // showTableImmutable for immutable tables
new String[][]{
{"Jimmy Johnson", "35", "Zombieland"},
{"Danny Durango", "23", "Hangover"},
{"Larry Berry", "54", ""}
},
Arrays.asList("Name", "Age", "Favorite movie"),
"Favorite movies");
new UiBooster().showPictures(
"My picture",
Arrays.asList(
new File("/home/nick/pictures/img-01.jpg"),
new File("/home/nick/pictures/img-02.jpg")
)
);
UiBooster booster = new UiBooster();
Form form = booster.createForm("Personal information")
.addText("Whats your first name?")
.addTextArea("Tell me something about you")
.addSelection(
"Whats your favorite movie?",
Arrays.asList("Pulp Fiction", "Bambi", "The Godfather", "Hangover"))
.addLabel("Choose an action")
.addButton("half full", () -> booster.showInfoDialog("Optimist"))
.addButton("half empty", () -> booster.showInfoDialog("Pessimist"))
.addSlider("How many liters did you drink today?", 0, 5, 1, 5, 1)
.show();
// use .run() instead of show() to open the formBuilder without blocking.
The form is very powerful and provides a lot of features:
- add your own elements (Example)
- put multiple elements in one row (Example)
- add a listener for any changes (Example)
- add a listener on window close (Example)
- set window setting, f.e. size and position (Example)
- data-binding to manage inputs in form in dedicated variables (Example)
Splashscreen splash = new UiBooster().showSplashscreen("/path/to/your/splash.png");
// do your stuff
splash.hide();
UiBooster booster = new UiBooster();
booster.createTrayMenu("Food", "screenshots/color.jpg")
.withPopupMenu()
.addMenu("Hotdogs", () -> booster.showInfoDialog("Sausage in a roll"))
.addMenu("Fries", () -> booster.showInfoDialog("Fried potatoes"))
.addMenu("Pizza", () -> booster.showInfoDialog("Dough with tomato sauce"));
new UiBooster().createNotification("It's hot and delicious", "Dinner is ready");
UiBooster booster = new UiBooster(
UiBoosterOptions.Theme.DARK_THEME,
"/path/to/your/custom-window-icon.png"
);
See some examples for UiBoosterOptions here
- Add themes as maven dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>com.formdev</groupId>
<artifactId>flatlaf-intellij-themes</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
- Create a new UiBooster with theme as UiBoosterOption
UiBooster booster = new UiBooster(new UiBoosterOptions(new com.formdev.flatlaf.intellijthemes.materialthemeuilite.FlatMaterialOceanicIJTheme(), null, null));
booster.showInfoDialog("Info Message Empty Constructor");
If you want to use UiBooster
than add the following to your pom.xml.
<repository>
<id>jitpack.io</id>
<url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.milchreis</groupId>
<artifactId>uibooster</artifactId>
<version>1.21.1</version>
</dependency>
If you want to use UiBooster
with gradle than add the repo, and the dependency to your root build.gradle file.
allprojects {
repositories {
...
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
}
dependencies {
implementation 'com.github.milchreis:uibooster:1.21.1'
}