I normally go to the swing tutorials on Sun's website when I have questions.
I'm writing a GUI in clojure. I'm using IntelliJ's (not great) FormDesigner.
Clojure is in some sense 'on top of' Java, since it uses the Java libs.
Writing a Swing GUI in Clojure hasn't been that much different than writing it
in java, except that you can automate away a lot of the ceremony that Swing so
loves.
Many people hate layout managers and just lay things out with XYLayout.
It certainly makes it easier to lay something out if you're not using a visual
designer type package.
The only real trick to using swing is understanding that most everything that
modifies the UI has to happen in the event thread. So, if you, say, have a
cancel button in a dialog for a long operation, and the cancel button goes away
when the operation completes (assuming the dialog stays open, maybe to display
some results) then you need to use SwingWorker to run the code that removes the
button in the proper thread.
Fortunately this doesn't apply to most property settings, so if you change the
text in a label or turn a button green you're OK.
And of course if you click a button and that makes another button go away,
that's fine, since you're already IN the event thread.
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