This book builds on the successful approach of the first edition of Swing, once again taking the power and flexibility of Java's Swing library to its limits. Using a fast-paced style, it starts by introducing each of the Swing components and continues with production-quality code examples in which Swing features are customized, combined, and vigorously exercised to demonstrate real-world usage.

With over 400 pages of revised text, additional examples, and new material to bring the book up to date with J2SE 1.4, Swing Second Edition includes complete coverage of the new JSpinner and JFormattedTextField components, the new Focus and Keyboard architectures, and many other new and enhanced Swing features. Three new chapters have also been added to cover the construction of HTML and XML editor applications, and how to work with the new Drag & Drop architecture.

• In-depth table, tree, text, MDI and L&F coverage
• All about painting, multithreading, keyboard focus and input
• Guidelines and techniques for good UI design
• Using the new JSpinner and JFormattedTextField components
• Scrollable tabbed panes and indeterminate progress bars
• How to implement, among other things:
• - FTP and JPEG editor applications
  - A full featured MDI plain text editor application
  - JTable stock quote and expense report applications
  - A JavaBeans property editor application
  - A full featured HTML editor application
  - A JTree-based file system explorer application
  - Sorting and printing tables
  - A custom multi-page print preview component
  - An XML editor application
  - Drag & Drop

Contents

• Swing overview
• Swing mechanics

• Frames, panels, and borders
• Layout managers
• Labels and buttons
• Tabbed panes
• Scrolling panes
• Split panes
• Combo boxes
• List boxes and spinners
• Text components and undo
• Menus, toolbars, and actions
• Progress bars, sliders, and scroll bars
• Dialogs

• Layered panes & custom MDI
• Desktops & internal frames
• Trees
• Tables
• Inside Text Components
• Constructing an HTML editor application
• Pluggable look and feel

• Printing
• Constructing an XML editor
• Drag & Drop