More About Swing Components

Components and events named all the significant JComponents, and there were about forty in all (including all the subclasses of subclasses). We've briefly presented some of the more important ones here. That's certainly enough to get you started writing GUI programs. To keep the book to a manageable size, however, and still fit in all the other information, we don't show all of them.

Here are some pointers on how to find out more about the other components when you're ready to. The first resource is the good (if somewhat fluid) online tutorial on Java in general, and Swing in particular, that Sun Microsystems maintains at java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ui/swing/.

The second resource is a book that examines ...

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