9781884777677

A complete reference to one of the hot developments in Java programming for intermediate to advanced Java programmers.

Stephen C. Drye is a software development veteran of thirteen years. In his current work at Ericsson he pushes Swing and Java to the limit on cutting-edge communications applications. William C. Wake is an experienced Java consultant who has worked on local service and sub-network management software projects for MCI. The authors maintain the Internet's Swing FAQ.

preface	p. xi
intended audience	p. xiii
hardware and software requirements	p. xiv
Author Online	p. xv
how this book is organized	p. xvi
conventions used in this book	p. xvii
review process for this book	p. xviii
about the cover illustration	p. xx
special thanks	p. xxi
An introduction to Swing	p. 1
The basics	p. 3
Why Swing?	p. 4
The basics	p. 6
Where's Swing?	p. 7
Porting from AWT to Swing	p. 7
The idea behind Swing	p. 10
Swing is not AWT	p. 13
Into the Swing of things	p. 17
Swing controls similar to those in AWT	p. 18
Basic components in Swing	p. 19
JComponent	p. 19
JFrame and JDialog	p. 20
JPanel	p. 21
JButton	p. 21
JMenu	p. 23
JList and JComboBox	p. 24
JTextField and JTextArea	p. 25
JApplet	p. 27
Going pro: advanced Swing	p. 27
A simple application	p. 27
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that Swing	p. 32
Icons	p. 32
Actions	p. 32
Borders	p. 33
Scrollable	p. 34
The new containers	p. 35
JLayeredPane	p. 35
JDesktopPane	p. 36
JSplitPane	p. 37
JTabbedPane	p. 37
The new components	p. 38
JTree	p. 38
JTable	p. 41
JToolBar	p. 43
JOptionPane	p. 44
JSlider	p. 44
JProgressBar	p. 45
The Swing text components	p. 46
JEditorPane	p. 47
The new layout managers	p. 49
The undo package	p. 50
Swing, color, and the UIDefaults table	p. 51
Multithreading and Swing	p. 53
About Swing bugs	p. 54
Pluggable look and feel	p. 57
Using predefined pluggable look and feels	p. 58
Custom painting components	p. 59
Pluggable Picasso: writing a custom look and feel	p. 60
Themes	p. 66
About the Multi look and feel	p. 68
The Accessibility API	p. 71
Using the Accessibility API	p. 73
Understanding the Accessibility API	p. 75
Accessibility through pluggable look and feel	p. 79
The end result	p. 79
Swing Reference	p. 81
Package accessibility	p. 83
Accessibility extends/implements hierarchy	p. 84
Quick summary	p. 84
FAQs	p. 84
Package swing	p. 107
Swing extends/implements hierarchy	p. 108
Quick summary	p. 113
Action summary	p. 113
Button summary	p. 113
Layout summary	p. 113
List summary	p. 113
Menu summary	p. 114
Panel summary	p. 114
Bounded Range summary	p. 114
Scrolling summary	p. 114
Text summary	p. 115
Container summary	p. 115
Models, implementations, and views	p. 115
JComponent FAQs	p. 211
JDialog FAQs	p. 227
JFrame FAQs	p. 249
JList FAQs	p. 273
JMenuBar FAQs	p. 288
JPanel FAQs	p. 305
JTable FAQs	p. 358
JTextArea FAQs	p. 376
JTree FAQs	p. 394
Package swing.border	p. 461
Border extends/implements hierarchy	p. 461
Quick summary	p. 462
FAQs	p. 462
Package swing.colorchooser	p. 477
Colorchooser extends/implements hierarchy	p. 477
Quick summary	p. 477
FAQs	p. 478
Package swing.event	p. 481
Event extends/inherits hierarchy	p. 482
Summary	p. 483
Package swing.filechooser	p. 517
Filechooser extends/implements hierarchy	p. 517
Quick summary	p. 517
FAQs	p. 518
Package swing.plaf	p. 521
Plaf extends/implements hierarchy	p. 522
Quick summary	p. 523
FAQs	p. 524
Package swing.plaf.basic	p. 547
Basic extends/implements hierarchy	p. 548
Quick summary	p. 549
FAQs	p. 549
Package swing.table	p. 733
Table extends/implements hierarchy	p. 734
Quick summary	p. 734
FAQs	p. 735
Package swing.text	p. 769
Text extends/implements hierarchy	p. 770
Quick summary	p. 777
FAQs	p. 777
Package swing.text.html	p. 899
HTML extends/implements hierarchy	p. 900
Quick summary	p. 901
FAQs	p. 901
Package swing.html.parser	p. 941
Parser extends/implements hierarchy	p. 942
Package swing.text.rtf	p. 951
Rtf extends/implements hierarchy	p. 951
Quick summary	p. 951
FAQs	p. 951
Package swing.tree	p. 955
Tree extends/implements hierarchy	p. 956
Quick summary	p. 956
FAQs	p. 956
Package swing.undo	p. 995
Undo extends/implements hierarchy	p. 996
Quick summary	p. 996
FAQs	p. 996
Related information sources	p. 1011
UIDefaults table standard keys	p. 1013
Swing events, listener interfaces, and event sources	p. 1024
index	p. 1029
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