i was jokin lol

shhhh LOL

Ahh!
I thank you malcolm! My best wishes to you and yours for a Great 2009 as well!

Most certainly malcomhfc!

Cheers!

Hay mate, hows you?

Happy new year all.

I did indeed you? How's the keyboard?

Happy Christmas Malc

Nadolig llawen

update: back

away for awhile!

Hello Malcomhfc, thanks for the welcome and for all you do here to help us get better aquited with our PC's. Thanks, Rowland/ silverwings

Naa, I'm not as strong as you think on Java. Unfortunately my strength lye's with the dying language which is Delphi! Looks like a good book though

hehe, na you'll get there. I'll talk your through it, basically, you need to bring up a window (the java term in Frame), and also to be able to put text into that window, you'll need to work with Labels.

So first you see "package", this is the name of your java application.

We need to work with labels and frames, so we "import" JFrame and JLabel (Java Frame and Java Label).

Anything starting with /* and ending with */ are comments. You can be anything in here, and this is perfectly healthy. If you ever have proper development training, they will advise you to use comments regularly, and you'll even be graded on it too. It can be useful to keep track of where everything is in your code, and you can explain what is happening for yourself at a later date. And if you ever get a job in development, it can be useful for other developers to see these comments, and make it easier to find what is going on. As your coding becomes more complicated, you'll find that there are sooo many ways produce what you want.

"public static void main" here is your main procedure. You can use procedures to call other procedures, but this is something you'll learn later, and you'll also learn what comes inside of those brackets are an important. These can be used to pass information from one procedure to another.

Below that "JFrame frame =" is where you specify a new frame. The frame can be called anything, not just "frame", and there is no limit to how many you have, just call it something different, for example "frame_main", "frame1", "frame2" or whatever you want to call it... but it's not quite ready yet, you have justed create a frame in memory. The part in brackets specifies the title of the frame, in this case "malcomhfc".

"JLabel label =" specifies a new label. Again you can call this anything you want, and within that label, the text "Hello World" can be changed at any time in your program.

Below that, your adding the label to the frame "add(label);".

The last three lines in the procedure is what is required to allow the frame to close properly, then finally, the frame (window) is ready, and you can make it visible.

Hey Malc, that will only work if your running it from a dos prompt, the gui equiv would be:

/*
* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
* and open the template in the editor.
*/

package javaapplication1;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

/**
*
* @author tsMonkey
*/
public class Main {

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Malcomhfc");
final JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello World");
frame.getContentPane().add(label);

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOS E);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}

}

Alright mate