Swing hacks / Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marinacci, Joshua.

Contributor:

Adamson, Chris, 1967-

Series:

Hacks series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swing (Computer file).

Java (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Subtitle on cover: Tips & tools for building killer GUIs.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Swing Hacks helps Java developers move beyond the basics of Swing, the graphical user interface (GUI) standard since Java 2. If you're a Java developer looking to build enterprise applications with a first-class look and feel, Swing is definitely one skill you need to master. This latest title from O'Reilly is a reference to the cool stuff in Swing. It's about the interesting things you learn over the years--creative, original, even weird hacks--the things that make you say, ""I didn't know you could even do that with Swing!"" Swing Hacks will show you how to exte

Contents:

Contents; Credits; About the Authors; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Joshua; Chris; Preface; Why Swing Hacks?; How to Use This Book; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Got a Hack?; Safari Enabled; Basic JComponents; Create Image-Themed Components; Don't Settle for Boring Text Labels; Fill Your Borders with Pretty Pictures; Display Dates in a Custom Calendar; Create the Images; A Component to Paint; Draw the Days of the Month; Add a Watermark to a Text Component; Watermark Your Scroll Panes

Put a NASA Photo into the Background of a Text AreaAnimate Transitions Between Tabs; Building a Basic Tabbed Pane; Scheduling the Animation; Drawing the Animation; Putting It All Together; Another Example; Blur Disabled Components; Building a Drop-Down Menu Button; Adding a Color Selection Panel; Create Menus with Drop Shadows; Add Translucence to Menus; Make the Custom Menu Item; Add a Custom JMenu; Test It Out; Future Ideas; Lists and Combos; Filter JLists; Add a Filter History; Make JLists Checkable; Make Different List Items Look Different; Reorder a JList with Drag-and-Drop

Animate Your JList SelectionsTurn Methods into List Renderers; Building a Generic Renderer; Putting It All Together; Create a Collections-Aware JComboBox; Tables and Trees; Size Your Columns to Suit Your JTable's Contents; Resetting Column Widths; Accounting for Header Cells; Hacking the Hack; Add Column Selection to JTables; Let Your JTables Do the Sorting; Create a JDBC Table Model; Building Connectivity; Testing Things Out; Export Table Data to an Excel Spreadsheet; Dealing with Formatting; Search Through JTables Easily; JTable Search Strategy; Decorating the TableModel

Creating Logical Links to the Inner Table ModelIndexing; Searching; Getting results from the index; Recreating the inner table model links; Try It Out; Finishing Touches; Listen to inner table updates; Clear search results for blank search; Wrapping Up; Animate JTree Drops; The Code; Running the Code; File Choosers; Add a Right-Click Context Menu to the JFileChooser; The Problem; Display Shortcuts in the JFileChooser; Real Windows Shortcut Support; Add Image Preview to File Choosers; Preview ZIP and JAR Files; Build File Proxies; Build a Custom Filesystem View; Put It All Together

Windows, Dialogs, and FramesWindow Snapping; Make a Draggable Window; Add Windows Resize Icons; A Tale of Two Icons; The Icon Interface; The Explorer Icon; The Office Icon; Add Status Bars to Windows; Standard Status Bars; Painting Panel Details; Add the Corner Icon; Add the Left Component; Add a Separator Panel; And the Rest...; Running the Hack; Save Window Settings; The Window Saver Class; Earthquake Dialog; Exterior Animation; Shake, Rattle, and Roll; Spin Open a Detail Pane; The Invisible Man; Now You See Me; Minimize to a Mini-Frame; I Shall Call Him...Mini-Me; Minimize the Frame

Restore the Frame

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596523602

0596523602

OCLC:

326626768