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| ===== Notes on the Launcher ===== | ===== Notes on the Launcher ===== | ||
| - | As you might have noticed, in our example the launcher is a (window) frame. That makes sense for nearly every desktop GUI toolkit as they all depend upon a window as main method to display their applications. But the launcher could also be simpler: for example, just a call to start the GUI thread. Or it could be something completely different: for example, an incoming HTTP request. | + | As you might have noticed, in our example the launcher is a (window) frame. That makes sense for nearly every desktop GUI toolkit, as they all depend upon a window as the main method to display their applications. But the launcher could also be simpler: for example, just a call to start the GUI thread. Or it could be something completely different: for example, an incoming HTTP request. |
| Also, don’t forget that the launcher is providing additional functionality to the application, like saving file handles, reading and writing the configuration, and similar platform and toolkit-dependent operations. See the [[https://sourceforge.net/p/jvx/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/java/swing/src/com/sibvisions/rad/ui/swing/impl/SwingApplication.java|launcher for Swing for further details]]. | Also, don’t forget that the launcher is providing additional functionality to the application, like saving file handles, reading and writing the configuration, and similar platform and toolkit-dependent operations. See the [[https://sourceforge.net/p/jvx/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/java/swing/src/com/sibvisions/rad/ui/swing/impl/SwingApplication.java|launcher for Swing for further details]]. | ||