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An application that runs stand alone in a desktop or laptop computer. Contrast with "Web-based application," which requires the Web browser to run.

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Qt - top level widget with keyboard and mouse event transparency?

I want an app's main window to ignore mouse and keyboard events, passing them to applications underneath it in the window manager Z-order. I see how to make child widgets ignore keyboard or mouse events, but how about the main window? I'm trying…
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Create Windows Installer for Java Programs

I'm a Java beginner. I already created a simple GUI application that display will "hello world" label. But, how can I create an installer from .java or .jar for windows. Let's say that I have created a useful application and want to share it with my…
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How to fit Windows Form to any screen resolution?

I work on VS 2008 with C#. This below code does not work for me. My form was designed in 1024 x 768 resolution. Our clients laptop is in 1366 x 768 resolution. To solve this problem, I set below code in Form Load event: this.Location = new Point(0,…
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How to build a SystemTray app for Windows?

I usually work on a Linux system, but I have a situation where I need to write a client app that would run on windows as a service. Can someone help me or direct, on how to build a system tray app (for example like dropbox) for the windows…
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How do I store desktop application data in a cross platform way for python?

I have a python desktop application that needs to store user data. On Windows, this is usually in %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\AppName\, on OSX it's usually ~/Library/Application Support/AppName/, and on other *nixes it's usually…
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How do I convert web application into desktop executable?

I've HTML application build with AngularJS/jQuery/Bootstrap with AJAX REST API. Is it possible to create executable/installer for Windows operating system? Without any 3rd-party software, it should look like native application, but HTML. For…
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Is it wrong to use the hand cursor for clickable items such as buttons?

I've always thought the hand cursor to be the ideal visual indicator for "you may click here" to the user. We are used to see it in this context daily because of it's usage on hyperlinks and hence all web buttons.                   However, most…
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How can I launch a URL in the users default browser from my application?

How can I have a button in my desktop application that causes the user's default browser to launch and display a URL supplied by the application's logic.
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General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 57

I'm trying to setup libgdx for a desktop game and when I try to generate the project I have this error and the build fails. I've the latest versions of Java(13.0.2) and Gradle(6.6), both set as environment variables in the path. Can somebody help…
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Is there a good framework for Java desktop applications?

I have developed many desktop applications in Swing, even those a bit more complex, with Hibernate and Spring integration. I found out that many things repeats and should be done quickly and in convenient way, like application lifecycle, logging,…
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Is Java the best language to develop cross-platform GUI applications?

For "best" I intend that the code shouldn't need, or need very few, platform specific tweaks.
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Integrating JavaFX 2.0 WebView into a Swing Java SE 6 Application

I was looking for a way to integrate a Web-Browser-Component in an existing Swing-Application and found WebView for Java FX 2.0. Furthermore I found a blog post on java.net showing how to integrate a Java FX component into a Swing Application . So I…
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Examples of good Java desktop applications

More of a wiki list/collection, I'm looking for a list of good Java desktop apps. I've added a couple below to get started. Please list the framework/widget toolkit being used if it's know as well.
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Electron UI for Golang Program?

I'd like to make a GUI in Electron for a Desktop Application written in Go (currently it's a command line tool). What's the convention for communicating between the Electron and Go processes? Would simply using the Go binary as an API work? Some…
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Executable directory where application is running from?

I need to get the path (not the executable) where my application is running from: System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory() When I run the above statement with & "/images/image.jpg" on my local machine it works fine but when I install the…
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