Book description
Java GUI Development covers the Java 2 AWT, JFC, and Swing Toolkit technologies for GUI programming. It provides professional developers and software engineers with 1) a clear understanding of the conceptual framework behind Java 2 GUI tools, 2) descriptions of Java GUI idioms, and 3) practical programming techniques proven to work with these tools. This approach enables developers to solve difficult GUI programming tasks faster, write tighter and faster code, and implement more sophisticated GUI designs.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
- 1. UI Programming Concepts
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2. Introducing the Java Foundation Classes
- The Big Picture
- The Abstract Windowing Toolkit
- Platform-Independence
- AWT Components
- The AWT Component Class
- AWT Containers
- Layout Managers
- The Java Foundation Classes
- Lightweight Components
- Swing's Pluggable Look-and-Feel
- The Delegation Event Model
- The JFC Containment Model
- The JFC and Swing Class Hierarchies
- The JFC Model Architecture
- Summary
- 3. Basic Program Structure
- 4. AWT Concepts and Architecture
- 5. The AWT Components
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6. Swing Concepts and Architecture
- The Swing Component Tool Set
- The javax.swing.JComponent Class
- Making Swing Components Lightweight
- Abstractions Encapsulated by the JComponent Class
- Swing Containers
- The Swing Container Abstraction
- The JRootPane Container
- The JLayeredPane Class
- Lightweight and Heavyweight Containers
- Configuring Look-and-Feel
- Summary
- 7. The Swing Components
- 8. Layout Managers
- 9. Events and Event Handling
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10. Models
- Identifying and Targeting Abstractions
- Utilizing the MVC Paradigm
- The Swing Model Architecture
- Swing Model Anatomy
- 11. Graphics
- 12. Fonts and Colors
Product information
- Title: Java GUI Development: The Authoritative Solution
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 1999
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780672315466
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