Swing: A Beginner's Guide

From the world's bestselling programming author Using the practical pedagogy that has made his other Beginner's Guides so successful, Herb Schildt provides new Swing programmers with a completely integrated learning package. Perfect for the classroom or self-study,Swing: A Beginner's Guidedelivers the appropriate mix of theory and practical coding. You will be programming as early as Chapter 1.

Herbert Schildt is the author of dozens of programming books, which have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. His books are so widely used that it has been said that he taught a generation of programmers to program. Schildt is an authority on C, C++, C#, and Java and is an expert Windows programmer.

Preface

xv

Swing Fundamentals

1

(46)

The Origins of Swing

2

(1)

Two Key Swing Features

3

(1)

Swing Components Are Lightweight

3

(1)

Swing Supports a Pluggable Look and Feel

4

(1)

Swing Is Built on the AWT

4

(1)

The MVC Connection

5

(1)

Components and Containers

6

(3)

Components

6

(1)

Containers

7

(1)

The Top-Level Container Panes

8

(1)

A First Simple Swing Program

9

(6)

The First Swing Example Line by Line

10

(5)

Event Handling

15

(4)

Events

15

(1)

Event Sources

15

(1)

Event Listeners

16

(1)

Event Classes and Listener Interfaces

16

(2)

Adapter Classes

18

(1)

Using a Push Button

19

(5)

Project 1-1 A Simple Stopwatch

24

(6)

Introducing JTextField

30

(5)

Project 1-2 Create a Simple Code Machine

35

(7)

Event Handling Alternatives

42

(1)

A Word About Layout Managers

43

(1)

The Swing Packages

44

(1)

Module 1 Mastery Check

44

(3)

Labels, Buttons, and Borders

47

(66)

Introducing Borders

48

(3)

A Closer Look at Labels

51

(17)

Change a Label's Alignment

52

(5)

Add a Graphics Image to a Label

57

(4)

Disable a Label

61

(2)

Add a Keyboard Mnemonic to a Label

63

(3)

Get and Set Label Text

66

(1)

Using HTML in a Label

66

(2)

Button Fundamentals

68

(5)

Handling Action Events

70

(1)

Handling Item Events

71

(1)

Handling Change Events

72

(1)

A Closer Look at JButton

73

(6)

Add an Image to Push Buttons

73

(5)

Define a Default Button

78

(1)

JButton Options

78

(1)

Use Anonymous Inner Class to Handle Events

79

(3)

Project 2-1 Explore JButton Change Events and ButtonModel

82

(5)

Using JToggleButton

87

(7)

Use getItem() to Determine the Source of an Item Event

90

(3)

JToggleButton Options

93

(1)

Create Check Boxes with JCheckbox

94

(5)

Check Box Options

98

(1)

Create Radio Buttons with JRadioButton

99

(5)

Project 2-2 Build a Simple Phone list

104

(8)

Module 2 Mastery Check

112

(1)

Scroll Bars, Sliders, and Progress Bars

113

(50)

BoundedRangeModel

114

(2)

Scroll Bars

116

(13)

JScrollBar Properties

118

(1)

Handling JScrollBar Adjustment Events

119

(1)

Use Scroll Bars

120

(4)

Some Scroll Bar Options

124

(5)

Sliders

129

(8)

Setting Tick Marks and Labels

131

(1)

Demonstrate Sliders

132

(4)

Some Slider Options

136

(1)

Project 3-1 Use Custom Slider Labels to Build an Audio Player Interface

137

(19)

Progress Bars

156

(6)

Demonstrate Progress Bars

157

(3)

Some JProgressBar Options

160

(2)

Module 3 Mastery Check

162

(1)

Managing Components with Panels, Panes, and Tooltips

163

(44)

Work with JPanel

164

(10)

Use Panels to Organize Components

166

(4)

Use a Custom JPanel as the Content Pane

170

(4)

Use JScrollPane

174

(9)

A Simple JScrollPane Example

176

(2)

Add Headers

178

(3)

Some Scroll Pane Options

181

(2)

Project 4-1 Scrolling a JPanel

183

(4)

Work with JTabbedPane

187

(6)

JTabbedPane Options

190

(3)

Project 4-2 Use JPanels with a JTabbedPane

193

(6)

Use JSplitPane

199

(5)

Some JSplitPane Options

202

(2)

Add Tooltips

204

(2)

Module 4 Mastery Check

206

(1)

Lists

207

(48)

Work with JList

208

(12)

Handle Multiple Selections

213

(3)

JList Options

216

(4)

Project 5-1 Work with a List Model

220

(9)

Use JComboBox

229

(5)

Create an Editable Combo Box

232

(2)

Some JComboBox Options

234

(6)

Work with JSpinner

240

(14)

Use the SpinnerListModel

242

(3)

Use the SpinnerNumberModel

245

(4)

Use the SpinnerDateModel

249

(5)

Module 5 Mastery Check

254

(1)

Text Components

255

(46)

JTextComponent

256

(3)

JTextField

259

(8)

JPasswordField

267

(3)

JFormattedTextField

270

(10)

Create a JFormattedTextField Based on Data Type

271

(1)

Create a JFormattedTextField Based on a Format

272

(1)

Handle Property Change Events for a JFormattedTextField

273

(2)

A JFormattedTextField Demonstration Program

275

(5)

Use JTextArea

280

(6)

Some JTextArea Options

285

(1)

Project 6-1 Create a Simple Text Editor

286

(13)

Module 6 Mastery Check

299

(2)

Working with Menus

301

(52)

Menu Basics

302

(2)

An Overview of JMenuBar, JMenu, and JMenultem

304

(5)

JMenuBar

305

(1)

JMenu

306

(1)

JMenultem

307

(2)

Create a Main Menu

309

(5)

Add Mnemonics and Accelerators to Menu Items

314

(2)

Add Images and Tooltips to Menu Items

316

(2)

Project 7-1 Dynamically Add and Remove Menu Items

318

(7)

Use JRadioButtonMenultem and JCheckBoxMenultem

325

(3)

Create a Popup Menu

328

(5)

Create a Toolbar

333

(4)

Some Toolbar Options

336

(1)

Use Actions

337

(7)

Put the Entire MenuDemo Program Together

344

(7)

Module 7 Mastery Check

351

(2)

Tables and Trees

353

(60)

JTable Fundamentals

354

(7)

Change the Table Selection Mode

361

(1)

Allow Column or Cell Table Selections

362

(2)

Enable Column Selection

362

(1)

Enable Cell Selection

362

(2)

Handle Table Selection Events

364

(9)

Table Selection Basics

364

(1)

Handle Row Selection Events

364

(4)

Handle Column Selection Events

368

(4)

Handle Cell Selections

372

(1)

Handle Table Model Events

373

(5)

Change Table Resize Modes

378

(4)

Implement a Custom Table Model

382

(5)

Some Table Options

387

(1)

Project 8-1 Create a Custom Cell Renderer

388

(7)

JTree Fundamentals

395

(6)

Handle Tree Events

401

(7)

TreeSelectionEvent

401

(1)

TreeExpansionEvent

402

(1)

TreeModelEvent

402

(1)

A Tree Event Demonstration Program

403

(5)

Some Tree Options

408

(2)

Project 8-2 Enumerate a Tree

410

(1)

Module 8 Mastery Check

411

(2)

Dialogs

413

(58)

JOptionPane

414

(22)

showMessageDialog()

417

(4)

showConfirmDialog()

421

(5)

showlnputDialog()

426

(5)

showOptionDialog()

431

(5)

JDialog

436

(8)

Create a Non-Modal Dialog

442

(2)

Select Files with JFileChooser

444

(10)

Add a File Filter

449

(4)

Some File Chooser Options

453

(1)

Project 9-1 Create a File-Comparison Program

454

(12)

Select Colors with JColorChooser

466

(3)

Module 9 Mastery Check

469

(2)

Threading, Applets, Painting, and Layouts

471

(48)

Multithreading in Swing

472

(7)

Use Timer

479

(4)

Create Swing Applets

483

(7)

Applet Basics

484

(1)

The Applet Skeleton

484

(3)

Construct an Applet GUI

487

(1)

A Simple Swing Applet

487

(3)

Project 10-1 Scroll Text in an Applet

490

(5)

Painting

495

(8)

Painting Fundamentals

495

(1)

The Graphics Context

496

(1)

Compute the Paintable Area

496

(1)

Request Painting

497

(1)

A Paint Example

498

(5)

Two Versatile Layout Managers

503

(13)

GridBagLayout

504

(7)

BoxLayout

511

(5)

What's Next?

516

(1)

Module 10 Mastery Check

517

(2)

Appendix: Answers to Mastery Checks

519

(54)

Index

573

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Swing: A Beginner's Guide

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