JAVA SWING - Brossura

Eckstein, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 156592455X ISBN 13: 9781565924550

Casa editrice: O'Reilly Media Inc, 1998

Riassunto

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. The Swing components are all "lightweight," and therefore provide more uniform behavior across platforms, making it easier to test your software. All these new features mean that there's a lot to learn. Swing is undoubtedly way ahead of AWT -- or, for that matter, any widely available user interface toolkit -- but it's also a lot more complicated. It's still easy to do simple things. But once you've seen what's possible, you won't want to do the simple things. 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, allowing you to build state-of-the-art user interfaces. It also discusses how the components implement the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture, so you can understand how the components are designed and subclass them intelligently. Finally, it shows how to create your own "look and feel." Throughout, Java Swing focuses on giving you the context you need to understand what you're doing. It's more than documentation; Java Swing helps you develop code quickly and effectively. Whether you're a serious Java developer, or just trying to find out what Java can do, you'll find Java Swing an indispensable guide.

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L'autore

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.

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.

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.

Contenuti

Preface; What This Book Covers; About the Source Code; Conventions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introducing Swing; 1.1 What Is Swing?; 1.2 Swing Features; 1.3 Swing Packages and Classes; 1.4 The Model-View-Controller Architecture; 1.5 Working with Swing; 1.6 The Swing Set Demo; 1.7 Reading this Book; Chapter 2: Jump Starting a Swing Application; 2.1 Upgrading Your Programs; 2.2 Beyond Buttons; 2.3 A Bigger Application; Chapter 3: Swing Component Basics; 3.1 Understanding Actions; 3.2 Sending Change Events in Swing; 3.3 The JComponent Class; Chapter 4: Labels and Icons; 4.1 Labels; 4.2 Icons; Chapter 5: Buttons; 5.1 Buttons; Chapter 6: Bounded Range Components; 6.1 The Bounded-Range Model; 6.2 The JScrollBar Class; 6.3 The JSlider Class; 6.4 The JProgressBar Class; 6.5 Monitoring Progress; Chapter 7: Lists and Combo Boxes; 7.1 Lists; 7.2 Representing List Data; 7.3 Handling Selections; 7.4 Displaying Cell Elements; 7.5 The JList Class; 7.6 Combo Boxes; 7.7 The JComboBox Class; Chapter 8: Swing Containers; 8.1 A Simple Container; 8.2 Basic RootPaneContainers; Chapter 9: Internal Frames; 9.1 Managing a Desktop; 9.2 Building a Desktop; Chapter 10: Swing Dialogs; 10.1 The JDialog Class; 10.2 The JOptionPane Class; Chapter 11: Specialty Panes and Layout Managers; 11.1 The JSplitPane Class; 11.2 The JScrollPane Class; 11.3 The JTabbedPane Class; 11.4 Layout Managers; 11.5 Other Panes; Chapter 12: Chooser Dialogs; 12.1 The JFileChooser Class; 12.2 The File Chooser Package; 12.3 The Color Chooser; 12.4 The JColorChooser Class; Chapter 13: Borders; 13.1 Introducing Borders; 13.2 Swing Borders; 13.3 The CompoundBorder Class; 13.4 Creating Your Own Border; Chapter 14: Menus and Toolbars; 14.1 Introducing Swing Menus; 14.2 Menu Bar Selection Models; 14.3 The JMenuBar Class; 14.4 The JMenuItem Class; 14.5 The JPopupMenu Class; 14.6 The JMenu Class; 14.7 Selectable Menu Items; 14.8 Toolbars; Chapter 15: Tables; 15.1 Table Columns; 15.2 Table Data; 15.3 The JTable Class; 15.4 Editing and Rendering; 15.5 Selecting Table Entries; Chapter 16: Advanced Table Examples; 16.1 A Table with Row Headers; 16.2 Large Tables with Paging; 16.3 Charting Data with a TableModel; Chapter 17: Trees; 17.1 A Simple Tree; 17.2 Tree Models; 17.3 Tree Nodes and Paths; 17.4 The JTree Class; 17.5 Tree Selections; 17.6 Tree Events; 17.7 Rendering and Editing; 17.8 What Next?; Chapter 18: Undo; 18.1 The Swing Undo Facility; Chapter 19: Text 101; 19.1 The Swing Text Components; 19.2 More to Come; Chapter 20: Document Model and Events; 20.1 The Document Model; 20.2 Document Events; 20.3 Advanced AbstractDocument Event Model; Chapter 21: Styled Documents and JTextPane; 21.1 Style; 21.2 A Stylized Editor; Chapter 22: Carets, Highlighters, and Keymaps; 22.1 JTextComponent UI Properties; Chapter 23: Text Views; 23.1 Text Views; 23.2 The View Classes; Chapter 24: EditorKits and TextActions; 24.1 Overview of the Editor Kits; 24.2 Phew!; Chapter 25: Programming with Accessibility; 25.1 How Accessibility Works; 25.2 The Accessibility Package; 25.3 Other Accessible Objects; 25.4 The Six Types of Accessibility; 25.5 The Accessibility Utility Classes; 25.6 Interfacing with Accessibility; Chapter 26: Look & Feel; 26.1 How Does It Work?; 26.2 Key L&F Classes and Interfaces; 26.3 The MultiLookAndFeel; 26.4 Look-and-Feel Customization; 26.5 Creation of a Custom L&F; Chapter 27: Swing Utilities; 27.1 General Utilities; 27.2 Editing and Rendering Utilities; 27.3 Event Utilities; 27.4 Image Utilities; Chapter 28: Swing Under the Hood; 28.1 Creating Your Own Component; 28.2 Working with Focus; 28.3 Lightweight vs. Heavyweight Components; 28.4 Multithreading Issues with Swing; 28.5 Painting and Repainting; Look & Feel Resources; Colophon;

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: O'Reilly Media Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 156592455X
• ISBN 13: 9781565924550
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 1221
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile