An Introduction to Piccolo

I googled "download piccolo.jar", selected Piccolo Home Page, www.piccolo2d.org, clicked Download, Compiled Source (2.9MB).

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    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.piccolo2d</groupId>
      <artifactId>piccolo2d-core</artifactId>
      <version>1.3.1</version>
    </dependency>

mvn install:install-file -Dfile="C:\Users\Scott\Desktop\piccolo2d-1.3.1-bin\piccolo2d-core-1.3.1.jar" -Dpackaging=jar -DgroupId=org.piccolo2d -DartifactId=piccolo2d-core -Dversion=1.3.1

package com.mycompany.gui;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.PCanvas;
import edu.umd.cs.piccolo.nodes.*;

public class MainFrame extends JFrame {
    private MainFrame() {
        final PCanvas canvas = new PCanvas();
        final PText text = new PText("Hello World");
        canvas.getLayer().addChild(text);
        add(canvas);

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(600, 400);
        setVisible(true);
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
            new MainFrame();
    }

}

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This post was reposted from http://scottizu.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/an-introduction-to-piccolo/, originally written on August 20th, 2010.