Herong's Tutorial Notes on Swing

Version 3.05

Dr. Herong Yang

Copyright © 1997-2006 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Swing

• What Is Swing?
• SwingHello.java - My First Swing Program

Graphics Environment

• Local Graphics Environment
• Screen Information of Default Toolkit
• Screen Resolution

Swing JFrame

• Closing Frame and Terminating Application
• Interrupting Frame Threads
• Displaying Chinese Characters in Frame Title
• Drawing Graphics in Frames
• Drawing Chinese Characters in Frames

Swing JLabel

• Creating Labels
• Creating Labels with Chinese Characters

Swing JButton

• My First JButton
• Handling Button Actions

Swing JRadioButton

• JRadioButton and Related Classes
• JRadioButton and Event Listeners
• Selected Radio Button

Swing JTextField

• JTextField and Related Classes
• JRadioButton and Event Listeners

Swing JInternalFrame

• JInternalFame and Related Classes
• Creating Internal Frames
• Internal Frame Listeners

Layouts of Components

• What Is a Layout?
• BorderLayout
• FLowLayout
• BoxLayout
• GridLayout
• GridBagLayout

Look and Feel

• LookAndFeel and UIManager
• LookAndFeelTest.java

References

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