JExplore - My Java Project

I am currently teaching myself to program in java and so I've decided to write a small applet called JExplore. The idea is to create a Windows Explorer-like tool that can be used on any platform. As I make changes I'll publish them here and have a small change log. You are welcome to examine my source code if you wish and provide feedback. Anything helps a novice Java programmer!

Note that given my dedication, this project could take quite a while! I only get to this when I have time and I'll be travelling soon it'll really suffer. But, I'll do what I can and we'll see how things go.

Some words on my development environment. I'm working on RedHat Linux 5.2 running jdk1.1.7 which I downloaded from www.blackdown.org (thanks, guys). I'm not using any development environment yet short of kwrite - an excellent editor that comes with KDE that colours reserved words, string literals etc for java as well as C, C++ and other languages.

You can start the applet here

You can view the source code here

Change Log

For all you yanks out there, the date format is dd/mm/yyyy (I have a Y2K-ready change log)
 
Date
Comments
29/1/1999 First release (if you want to call it that!)

Creates frame and a menu bar with a File->Quit menu

7/2/1999 Created public MainMenu class.  This class will handle everything to do with the menu bar
Created public ButtonPanel class.  This class will handle the (eventually) graphic button panel.