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Swing: A Beginner's Guide

by: Schildt, Herbert

Swing: A Beginner's Guide

by: Schildt, Herbert

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0072263148
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/29/2006
Publisher: McGraw Hill

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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.

Preface

Swing Fundamentals

(46)

The Origins of Swing

(1)

Two Key Swing Features

(1)

Swing Components Are Lightweight

(1)

Swing Supports a Pluggable Look and Feel

(1)

Swing Is Built on the AWT

(1)

The MVC Connection

(1)

Components and Containers

(3)

Components

(1)

Containers

(1)

The Top-Level Container Panes

(1)

A First Simple Swing Program

(6)

The First Swing Example Line by Line

(5)

Event Handling

(4)

Events

(1)

Event Sources

(1)

Event Listeners

(1)

Event Classes and Listener Interfaces

(2)

Adapter Classes

(1)

Using a Push Button

(5)

Project 1-1 A Simple Stopwatch

(6)

Introducing JTextField

(5)

Project 1-2 Create a Simple Code Machine

(7)

Event Handling Alternatives

(1)

A Word About Layout Managers

(1)

The Swing Packages

(1)

Module 1 Mastery Check

(3)

Labels, Buttons, and Borders

(66)

Introducing Borders

(3)

A Closer Look at Labels

(17)

Change a Label's Alignment

(5)

Add a Graphics Image to a Label

(4)

Disable a Label

(2)

Add a Keyboard Mnemonic to a Label

(3)

Get and Set Label Text

(1)

Using HTML in a Label

(2)

Button Fundamentals

(5)

Handling Action Events

(1)

Handling Item Events

(1)

Handling Change Events

(1)

A Closer Look at JButton

(6)

Add an Image to Push Buttons

(5)

Define a Default Button

(1)

JButton Options

(1)

Use Anonymous Inner Class to Handle Events

(3)

Project 2-1 Explore JButton Change Events and ButtonModel

(5)

Using JToggleButton

(7)

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

(3)

JToggleButton Options

(1)

Create Check Boxes with JCheckbox

(5)

Check Box Options

(1)

Create Radio Buttons with JRadioButton

(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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9780072263145

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