Simple GUI made with Clojure and Seesaw

A simple GUI made with Clojure and Seesaw.

How to make one?

This GUI was made using Netbeans IDE and its inbuilt Window Builder.

Steps:

1. Create a Clojure project using Leiningen or Boot, for example in Leiningen:

lein new app my-gui-project

2. Edit your project.clj, add [seesaw "LATEST"] to your dependencies and :java-source-paths ["src"]. It should stay like this:

(defproject my-gui-project "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME: write description"
  :url "http://example.com/FIXME"
  :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
            :url "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html"}
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
                 [seesaw "LATEST"]]
  :main ^:skip-aot my-gui-project.core
  :target-path "target/%s"
  :profiles {:uberjar {:aot :all}}
  :java-source-paths ["src"])

3. Create a project in Netbeans and create a new GUI, for example JFrame and add the widgets you need. Avoid using AWT widgets, at least for me it gives errors.
4. For each component (button, progress bar, label, tree, etc.) that you will want to use, make sure to always insert a name (in its properties). For example, a textField may have as a name: first-name.
5. Copy the GUI MainWindow.java file and any images to your Clojure my-gui-project/src/my_gui_project/.
6. Edit the MainWindow.java and at the top, replace whatever package xxxxx; with: package my_gui_project;. Note that this is the name of the folder inside /src/ folder. If you insert any image into the GUI, make sure to change the image path to ./image.png.
7. Have a look at core.clj file and try to do your own GUI.

Usage

To run this project, download the master and in the CMD, run the following commands:

# Extract the folder
# Go to project folder
cd ./Downloads/seesaw-gui-application-master/

# Get dependencies
lein deps

# Compile the project
lein compile

# Run the project
lein run