Chapter 14. Basic Swing

Topics in This Chapter

  • Building Swing applets and applications

  • Changing the GUI look and feel

  • Adding custom borders to components

  • Creating text and image buttons

  • Using HTML in labels and buttons

  • Selecting colors with JColorChooser

  • Sending dialog alerts for user input

  • Adding child frames to applications

  • Building custom toolbars

  • Implementing a Web browser in Swing

Many programmers consider the Swing components to be the single most significant improvement and change in the Java platform for development of graphical user interfaces. Swing adds the small touches (icons in dialog boxes, tool-tips, borders) that distinguish a commercial-quality GUI from an amateurish one.

The Swing components are standard in the Java 2 Platform and go ...

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