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Java Swing, 2nd Edition

By Marc Loy, Robert Eckstein, Dave Wood, James Elliott, Brian Cole

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: November 2002

Pages: 1280

Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible features and modular components, building elegant user interfaces with very little code.

This second edition of Java Swing thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2 SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than simply a reference, this new edition takes a practical approach. It is a book by developers for developers, with hundreds of useful examples, from beginning level to advanced, covering every component available in Swing.

All these features mean that there's a lot to learn. Even setting aside its platform flexibility, Swing compares favorably with any widely available user interface toolkit--it has great depth. Swing makes it easy to do simple things but is powerful enough to create complex, intricate interfaces.

Java Swing, 2nd edition includes :

A new chapter on Drag and Drop
Accessibility features for creating a user interface meeting the needs of all users
Coverage of the improved key binding infrastructure introduced in SDK 1.3
A new chapter on JFormattedTextField and input validation
Mac OS X coverage and examples
Coverage of the improved focus system introduced in SDK 1.4
Pluggable Look-and-Feel coverage
Coverage of the new layout manager, SpringLayout, from SDK 1.4
Properties tables that summarize important features of each component
Coverage of the 1.4 Spinner component
Details about using HTML in components
A new appendix listing bound actions for each component
A supporting web site with utilities, examples, and supplemental materials

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer or just trying to find out what Java can do, you'll find Java Swing, 2nd edition an indispensable guide.

Chapter 1 Introducing Swing
1. What Is Swing?
2. Swing Features
3. Swing Packages and Classes
4. The Model-View-Controller Architecture
5. Working with Swing
6. The Swing Set Demo
7. Reading This Book
Chapter 2 Jump-Starting a Swing Application
1. Upgrading Your AWT Programs
2. A Simple AWT Application
3. Including Your First Swing Component
4. Beyond Buttons
5. What Is an Internal Frame?
6. A Bigger Application
Chapter 3 Swing Component Basics
1. Understanding Actions
2. Graphical Interface Events
3. Graphics Environments
4. Sending Change Events in Swing
5. The JComponent Class
6. Responding to Keyboard Input
Chapter 4 Labels and Icons
1. Labels
2. Working with Images
3. Support for HTML
4. Icons
5. Implementing Your Own Icons
6. Dynamic Icons
7. The ImageIcon Class
Chapter 5 Buttons
1. The ButtonModel Interface
2. The DefaultButtonModel Class
3. The AbstractButton Class
4. The JButton Class
5. The JToggleButton Class
6. The JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel Class
7. The JCheckBox Class
8. The JRadioButton Class
9. The ButtonGroup Class
Chapter 6 Bounded-Range Components
1. The Bounded-Range Model
2. The JScrollBar Class
3. The JSlider Class
4. The JProgressBar Class
5. Monitoring Progress
Chapter 7 Lists, Combo Boxes, and Spinners
1. Lists
2. Representing List Data
3. Handling Selections
4. Displaying Cell Elements
5. The JList Class
6. Combo Boxes
7. The JComboBox Class
8. Spinners
9. Spinner Models
10. Spinner Editors
Chapter 8 Swing Containers
1. A Simple Container
2. The Root Pane
3. Basic RootPaneContainers
4. The JFrame Class
5. The JWindow Class
6. The JApplet Class
Chapter 9 Internal Frames
1. Simulating a Desktop
2. The JInternalFrame Class
3. The JDesktopPane Class
4. The DesktopManager Interface
5. Building a Desktop
Chapter 10 Swing Dialogs
1. The JDialog Class
2. The JOptionPane Class
3. Using JOptionPane
4. Simple Examples
5. Getting the Results
6. A Comparison: Constructors Versus Static Methods
7. Using Internal Frame Dialogs with JDesktopPane
Chapter 11 Specialty Panes and Layout Managers
1. The JSplitPane Class
2. The JScrollPane Class
3. The JTabbedPane Class
4. Layout Managers
5. The SpringLayout Class
6. Other Panes
Chapter 12 Chooser Dialogs
1. The JFileChooser Class
2. The File Chooser Package
3. The Color Chooser
4. The JColorChooser Class
5. Developing a Custom Chooser Panel
6. Developing a Custom Preview Panel
7. Developing a Custom Dialog
Chapter 13 Borders
1. Introducing Borders
2. Painting Borders Correctly
3. Swing Borders
4. Creating Your Own Border
Chapter 14 Menus and Toolbars
1. Introducing Swing Menus
2. Menu Bar Selection Models
3. The JMenuBar Class
4. The JMenuItem Class
5. The JPopupMenu Class
6. The JMenu Class
7. Selectable Menu Items
8. Toolbars
Chapter 15 Tables
1. The JTable Class
2. Implementing a Column Model
3. Table Data
4. Selecting Table Entries
5. Rendering Cells
6. Editing Cells
7. Next Steps
Chapter 16 Advanced Table Examples
1. A Table with Row Headers
2. Large Tables with Paging
3. A Table with Custom Editing and Rendering
4. Charting Data with a TableModel
Chapter 17 Trees
1. A Simple Tree
2. Tree Models
3. The JTree Class
4. Tree Nodes and Paths
5. Tree Selections
6. Tree Events
7. Rendering and Editing
8. What Next?
Chapter 18 Undo
1. The Swing Undo Facility
2. The UndoManager Class
3. Extending UndoManager
Chapter 19 Text 101
1. The Swing Text Components
2. The JTextComponent Class
3. The JTextField Class
4. A Simple Form
5. The JPasswordField Class
6. The JTextArea Class
7. How It All Works
Chapter 20 Formatted Text Fields
1. The JFormattedTextField Class
2. Handling Numerics
3. The DefaultFormatter Class
4. The MaskFormatter Class
5. The InternationalFormatter Class
6. The DateFormatter Class
7. The NumberFormatter Class
8. The DefaultFormatterFactory Class
9. Formatting with Regular Expressions
10. The InputVerifier Class
Chapter 21 Carets, Highlighters, and Keymaps
1. Carets
2. Highlighters
3. Keymaps
Chapter 22 Styled Text Panes
1. The JTextPane Class
2. AttributeSets and Styles
3. The Document Model
4. Document Events
5. Views
6. The DocumentFilter Class
7. The NavigationFilter Class
Chapter 23 Editor Panes and Editor Kits
1. The JEditorPane Class
2. Overview of the Editor Kits
3. HTML and JEditorPane
4. Hyperlink Events
5. The HTMLEditorKit Class
6. Extending HTMLEditorKit
7. Editing HTML
8. Writing HTML
9. Reading HTML
10. A Custom EditorKit
Chapter 24 Drag and Drop
1. What Is Drag and Drop?
2. The Drop API
3. The Drag Gesture API
4. The Drag API
5. Rearranging Trees
6. Finishing Touches
Chapter 25 Programming with Accessibility
1. How Accessibility Works
2. The Accessibility Package
3. Other Accessible Objects
4. Types of Accessibility
5. Classes Added in SDK 1.3 and 1.4
6. The Accessibility Utility Classes
7. Interfacing with Accessibility
Chapter 26 Look and Feel
1. Mac OS X and the Default Look-and-Feel
2. How Does It Work?
3. Key Look-and-Feel Classes and Interfaces
4. The MultiLookAndFeel
5. Auditory Cues
6. Look-and-Feel Customization
7. Creation of a Custom Look-and-Feel
Chapter 27 Swing Utilities
1. Utility Classes
2. The Timer Class
3. Tooltips
4. Rendering Odds and Ends
5. Event Utilities
Chapter 28 Swing Under the Hood
1. Working with Focus
2. Multithreading Issues in Swing
3. Lightweight Versus HeavyweightComponents
4. Painting and Repainting
5. Creating Your Own Component

Appendix A Look-and-Feel Resources
Appendix B Component Actions
1. JButton
2. JCheckBox
3. JCheckBoxMenuItem
4. JComboBox
5. JDesktopPane
6. JEditorPane
7. JFormattedTextField
8. JInternalFrame
9. JLabel
10. JList
11. JMenu
12. JMenuBar
13. JMenuItem
14. JOptionPane
15. JPasswordField
16. JPopupMenu
17. JProgressBar
18. JRadioButton
19. JRadioButtonMenuItem
20. JRootPane
21. JScrollBar
22. JScrollPane
23. JSlider
24. JSpinner
25. JSplitPane
26. JTabbedPane
27. JTable
28. JTextArea
29. JTextField
30. JTextPane
31. JToggleButton
32. JToolBar
33. JToolTip
34. JTree
35. JViewport
36. Non-JComponent Containers
37. Auditory Feedback Actions
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Java Swing, 2nd Edition

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Marc Loy, Robert Eckstein, Dave Wood, James Elliott, Brian Cole

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Marc Loy

Marc Loy is a senior programmer at Galileo Systems, LLC, but his day job seems to be teaching Java and Perl to various companies -- including Sun Microsystems. He has played with Java since the alpha days and can't find his way back to C. He is developing an interactive learning application at Galileo written entirely in Java. He received his master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and still lives in Madison with his partner, Ron Becker. He does find time to relax by playing the piano and/or throwing darts, depending on how successful the day of teaching or programming was.

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Robert Eckstein

Robert Eckstein, an editor at O'Reilly, works mostly on Java books (notably Java Swing) and is also responsible for the XML Pocket Reference and Webmaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. In his spare time he has been known to provide online coverage for popular conferences. He also writes articles for JavaWorld magazine. Robert holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and communications from Trinity University. In the past, he has worked for the USAA insurance company and more recently spent four years with Motorola's cellular software division. He is the co-author of Using Samba.

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Dave Wood

David Wood is Technical Director of Plugged In Software in Brisbane, Australia, where he works with a wonderful team producing Java custom software. In his eclectic career he has been a ship's navigator, deep sea salvage engineer, and aerospace project manager for the U.S. Navy, and consulted to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Netscape. David enjoys hiking and sailing with his very patient wife and teaching his son Perl before he goes to kindergarten. David holds degrees in mechanical, electrical, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and the Virginia Military Institute.

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James Elliott

a senior software engineer at Berbee, with over ten years professional experience as a systems developer. He started designing with objects well before work environments made it convenient, and has a passion for building high-quality Java tools and frameworks to simplify the tasks of other developers.

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Brian Cole

has been working with Java since its early days and teaches the language at venues ranging from Sun Microsystems to public high school. He has a BA from Oberlin College and an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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After trying to work through my other Swing book, I decided to give this book a try in the hope it would teach me more of the areas that I am lacking in (being a java server side developer, thats a lot) and I must say that this book is extremely clear on all kinds of subjects.

The only drawback that other readers commented on, being the lack of the layoutmanagers, isnt important to me, since I am using the JGoodies looks and forms for laying out everything.

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The Swing classes eliminate Java's biggest weakness: its relatively primitive user interface toolkit. Swing provides many new components and containers that allow you to build sophisticated user interfaces, far beyond what was possible with AWT. The old components have been greatly improved, and there are many new components, like trees, tables, and even text editors. It also

adds several completely new features to Java's user interface capabilities: drag-and-drop, undo, and the ability to develop your own "look and feel," or the ability to choose between several standard looks. Written for the experienced Java developer, Java Swing provides an in-depth guide to getting the most out of Sun's Swing/JFC user interface classes. Mixing real-world code examples and expert advice on advanced features, this book shows how to make use of this powerful library effectively within your own projects.

As a general Swing reference, this book is very good; where it excels is at covering the numerous important aspects of Swing theory and application. I was initially disappointed by the lack of coverage of layout managers, however the rest of the content has been extremely useful in helping me understand the key aspects of Swing GUI development.

Java Swing gives you in-depth coverage of everything you need to know to take full advantage of Swing, providing detailed descriptions of every class and interface in the key Swing packages. It shows you how to use all of the new components. Whether you're a serious Java Swing Developer or just trying to figure out what Java can do you will find this book as an indispensable guide.

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As a general Swing reference, this book is OK; where it excels is at covering the numerous important aspects of Swing theory and application. I was initially disappointed by the lack of coverage of layout managers, however the rest of the content has been extremely useful in helping me understand the key aspects of Swing GUI development.

To the authors: A nice addition to the text would be a spiral-bound quick-reference supplement containing the property tables you lay out so well (I particularly like the "is/get/set" indicators - they are especially helpful!)

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Chapter 1 Introducing Swing

What Is Swing?

Swing Features

Swing Packages and Classes

The Model-View-Controller Architecture

Working with Swing

The Swing Set Demo

Reading This Book

Chapter 2 Jump-Starting a Swing Application

Upgrading Your AWT Programs

A Simple AWT Application

Including Your First Swing Component

Beyond Buttons

What Is an Internal Frame?

A Bigger Application

Chapter 3 Swing Component Basics

Understanding Actions

Graphical Interface Events

Graphics Environments

Sending Change Events in Swing

The JComponent Class

Responding to Keyboard Input

Chapter 4 Labels and Icons

Labels

Working with Images

Support for HTML

Icons

Implementing Your Own Icons

Dynamic Icons

The ImageIcon Class

Chapter 5 Buttons

The ButtonModel Interface

The DefaultButtonModel Class

The AbstractButton Class

The JButton Class

The JToggleButton Class

The JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel Class

The JCheckBox Class

The JRadioButton Class

The ButtonGroup Class

Chapter 6 Bounded-Range Components

The Bounded-Range Model

The JScrollBar Class

The JSlider Class

The JProgressBar Class

Monitoring Progress

Chapter 7 Lists, Combo Boxes, and Spinners

Lists

Representing List Data

Handling Selections

Displaying Cell Elements

The JList Class

Combo Boxes

The JComboBox Class

Spinners

Spinner Models

Spinner Editors

Chapter 8 Swing Containers

A Simple Container

The Root Pane

Basic RootPaneContainers

The JFrame Class

The JWindow Class

The JApplet Class

Chapter 9 Internal Frames

Simulating a Desktop

The JInternalFrame Class

The JDesktopPane Class

The DesktopManager Interface

Building a Desktop

Chapter 10 Swing Dialogs

The JDialog Class

The JOptionPane Class

Using JOptionPane

Simple Examples

Getting the Results

A Comparison: Constructors Versus Static Methods

Using Internal Frame Dialogs with JDesktopPane

Chapter 11 Specialty Panes and Layout Managers

The JSplitPane Class