Java™ How to Program, Seventh Edition

22. GUI Components: Part 2

An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.

—Billy Wilder

...the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

—Edward Hoagland

You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horsesense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

—Jessie Tarbox Beals

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn: To create and manipulate sliders, menus, pop-up menus and windows. To change the look-and-feel of a GUI, using Swing’s pluggable look-and-feel. To create a multiple-document interface with ...