JFC Swing Standard Textbook (Second Edition)

Author: (USA) Walrath/K.; Deng Yifan et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: Introductory content for beginners in Swing development, including introductions to basic components such as text boxes, labels, buttons, and images. New recommendations from the Swing team regarding thread safety. Advanced features of Swing, including changing key bindings, handling focus, using data models, and adding drawing code with Java2D API. Introductions to how to use individual components and containers, including advanced components such as tables, trees, and text editors. Over 150 complete, usable code examples. This book includes the latest modifications to the JFC/Swing API and the Java 2 platform. In this book, the authors closely collaborate with the Swing team at Sun Microsystems to provide a detailed introduction to using Swing components to create GUIs. The book is task-oriented and offers numerous examples. It will enable readers to create user interface programs that run across multiple platforms without modification, with appearance and performance even exceeding native environments. Through a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of the Java 2 platform, the author provides fresh content for creating GUI programs in this book. For beginners or experienced Java developers who wish to create powerful and stable GUIs, this book is an indispensable textbook and reference.