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Swing and the Java Foundation Classes, JFC

Advanced JList Programming, Part 1
"The Swing JList component shows a simple list of objects in a single column. The user can select list entries with the mouse. JList supports the usual selecti...."

Articles about Swing Technology
Links to articles about Swing.

Articles by Friends of Swing
"In this section, The Swing Connection publishes outstanding articlesthat are written by third-party developers. These articles may contain code, statements, ..."

Building an Editor with an Overwrite Mode
"This month's tip shows how to create a text editor, named m_editor, which has both an insert mode and an overwrite mode.To create m_editor, there are four steps..."

Component Orientation in Swing
"Swing 1.1, which is now part of JDK 1.2, offers some support for the use of "BIDI" (bi-directional) text in buttons, labels andmenu items. This new feature is ..."

Create Your Own Lightweight Canvas
"In "Mixing Heavy and Light Components" (an article in The Swing Connection Archive), we learn that AWT and Swing components do not mix well. If we were to ..."

Creating a Custom Look and Feel
"In this article, ...used Swing's pluggable look and feel capabilities to design a custom look and feel for a software product that is now under development...."

Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
"...tells you how to create graphical userinterfaces (GUIs) for applications and applets, using the Swing components. TheSwing components, which are part of the..."

Creating an Experimental GUI
"If you like to experiment with GUIs, Swing's lightweight classes are are just the ticket. Because Swing's lightweight classes don't have peers, your class ..."

Creating TreeTables in Swing
"A TreeTable is a combination of a Tree and a Table -- a component capable of both expanding and contracting rows, as well as showing multiple columns of data...."

Creating TreeTables: Part 2
"For the sake of simplicity, the example program presented in "Creating TreeTables in Swing"was a bare-bones program with a fewshortcomings. This article..."

Creating Watermarks with Swing
"Familiar with watermarks? You've probably seen a Web page from time to time with a background that doesn't move when the page is scrolled. That kind of ...

Drag and Drop with Swing by David Geary
"This article focuses on drag and drop fundamentals. It is Part 1 of a two-part article on drag and drop with Swing. The second article will discuss Swing ..."

Generating Event Listeners Dynamically
"Swing uses ActionListeners to add behavior to nearly all of its GUI controls -- and the anonymous classes that JavaBeans use to implement event listeners have ..."

How to Use BoxLayout from The Java Tutorial
"The Swing packages include a general purpose layout manager named BoxLayout . BoxLayout either stacks its components on top of each other (with the first comp..."

How to Use Internal Frames, The Java Tutorial
"With the JInternalFrame class,you can display a JFrame-like window withinanother window.Usually, you add internal framesto a desktop pane.The desktop pane, in...."

How to Use Panels, from The Java Tutorial
"The JPanel class provides general-purpose containers for lightweightcomponents.By default, panels don't paint anything except for theirbackground;however, you ..."

Index to The Java Tutorial from Sun
The Java Tutorial, Second Edition, The JFC Swing Tutorial, Specialized trails, etc. This index will help you enter the tutorial at the appropriate online point.

Internalizable and Externalizable Frames
"The ability to place many JInternalFrames inside a JDesktopPane is extremely valuable. However, sometimes it it might be helpful to view more than one ..."

Java 2 introduces print capability to Swing
"This installment ... focuses on adding print functionality to a Swing application. Michael begins by covering the fundamentals of the new Java 2 printing syst...."

JAVA FOUNDATION CLASSES (JFC)
"What's New? 750,000 COPIES OF SWING SHIPPED! since its release in March, 1998 The final release of JFC/Swing 1.1.1 is now available. JFC/Swing 1.1.1 is the ..."

Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
"Provides essential information for anyone creating cross-platform applications and applets in the Java programming language. Along with design guidelines for ...."

Jazz It Up: A 5-Step Plan
"Before you spend all your free time working on a custom look and feel just to get that fancy look you want -- consider your alternatives. When it comes to ..."

JForge, The Clear Choice in GUI Builders
"JForge is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Builder used to build GUI's in Java using Java Foundation Class components and Swing. ..."

Mailpuccino: A Recipe for Brewing Cool ...
"Have you wished that an app you had created was as powerful as it looked -- or that itlooked as powerful as it was? Now, thanks to Swing's pluggable ..."

Mixing Heavy and Light Components
"Although the Swing component set provides alternatives to using pre-Swing AWT components (such as Button, List, and the like), one of the primary design goals...."

Netbeans Developer
"Developer is an object oriented, visual programming environment written in Java, and based entirely on JavaBeans components and Swing. As a result, NetBeans is ..."

On the Swing Track at JavaOne 99
"Smart Swing developers didn't waste any time getting on the right track when they showed up in San Francisco this year for the fourth annual JavaOne conf..."

Performance Secrets in Swing 1.1.1
"Performance of Swing-based applications has always been a concern for the Swing team, and each release continues to add performance enhancements. During the..."

Problems w/Swing's XMLOutputStream class
"Find out what's wrong, from the perspective of object-oriented design, with the XMLOutputStream class that's part of the newest version of Swing ..."

Saving JEditorPane Rendered HTML to JPEG
"Have you ever wanted to save rendered HTML output that was displayed within a JEditorPaneJFC/Project Swing component to an image file for later use? It is ..."

SUN MICROSYSTEMS RELEASES JFC
"Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that the firstshipping version of the Javam Foundation Classes software (JFC 1.1) is available for free public download at..."

Swing 1.1 API SpecificationSwing 1.1 API Specification
Specification portion of the Swing documentation.

Swing, Creating and Using Trees
"Swing makes it possible to create tree structures similar to Windows Explorer.The tree can be collapsed and expanded to hide or expose inner nodes in the tree..."

Swing, Custom List Selection Model for JList...
"The primary topic of this lesson is controlling how widgets respond to input. I will show you how you can control the rules for selection of elements in a JList.."

Swing, Custom Rendering of JList Cells
"The primary topic of this lesson is controlling how widgets look. I will show you how you can control the appearance of the elements in a JList object from two..."

Swing, Custom Rendering of Tree Nodes
"The look of the tree is subject to Swing's pluggable look and feel.The sample program in this lesson uses a Windows look and feel, although it can easily be..."

Swing Design Guidelines -- John Zukowski
"Have you ever wondered what the best way to design cross-platform user interfaces with the Swing component set is? Sun recently posted early accessto a new boo..."

Swing, Hidden Buttons with Icons, Icon Images...
Deals with a lot of fun stuff in Swing."

Swing in the Spotlight at JavaOne
"Swing was in the spotlight again at the JavaOne '99 conference, a gala event from June 15 to June 18 in SanFrancisco....speakers announced several new Swing..."

Swing, Simplified Lists in Swing
"Swing components are designed around MVC in which the view and the control are combined into an object called a delegate. Delegates represent the model to the ..."

Swing, Understanding Component MVC ...
"Swing gives you the ability to control how a widget's data is represented.This capability involving data representation is the primary topic of this lesson."

The Last Word in Swing Threads by Bowbeer
"This is not an article in any particular series, but it is the third article that The Swing Connection has published on the use of threads in Swing.The first..."

THE SWING/JFC FAQ
"This FAQ is regularly posted in comp.lang.java.gui and the Swing mailing list (swing@eos.dk). It is available on the web at http://www.drye.com/java/faq.html."

Threads and Swing
"The Swing API was designed to be powerful, flexible, and easy to use. In particular, we wanted to make it easy for programmers to build new Swing components, ..."

Tricks with JSlider: Tweaking a Swing Comp...
"As huge as the Swing library is, there will always be more features and enhancements that any design team ... can squeeze into a component API. However, thanks..."

Understanding the TreeModel
"In Swing, many components can be used with objects that implementcorresponding models. For example, Swing's JTree component can be used with an object that..."

Using a Swing Worker Thread
"New Ways to Perform Background Tasks...Threads are essential in Swing programs that perform user-initiated operations that are time-consuming or can block. For ..."

Using Layout Managers
Information on using layout mangers from The Java Tutorial from Sun.

What is NetBeans Developer ?
"Developer is an object oriented, visual programming environment written in Java, and based entirely on JavaBeans components and Swing. As a result, NetBeans is..."