Object-Oriented Programming - Lecture 8: Introduction to the Swing Toolkit - Lê Hồng Phương

Lecture 8: Introduction to the Swing Toolkit Lê Hồng Phương phuonglh@gmail.com Department of Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics Vietnam National University, Hanoi 2 Content ● A brief introduction to Swing ● Swing features ● Demo 3 What is Swing? ● The Swing toolkit, a part of the Java platform provides a rich set of GUI (Graphical User Interface) components. – A collection of standard widgets – Many functionalities 4 Features provided by Swing ● GUI components: – Basic components: buttons, check boxes, menus... – Rich and complex components: texts, tables, trees... ● Java 2D API: figures, images, shadows... ● Pluggable Look-And-Feel supports: – Java LAF, platform LAF, custom LAF ● Data transfer: cut, copy, paste, drag and drop between applications 5 Features provided by Swing ● Internationalization – Applications that can interact with users world wide in their own languages and cultural conventions. ● Undo framework API: undo, redo supports ● Flexible deployment supports: – Applets which run in web browsers – Programs which launch from a browser using Java Web Start – Standard desktop application 6 Basic controls JSpinner JTextField JPasswordField JRadioButton JSlider JButton JCheckBox JList JComboBox 7 Interactive displays of highly formatted information JEditorPane JTable JColorChooser 8 Interactive displays of highly formatted information JFileChooser JTree JTextArea 9 Uneditable information displays JLabel JProgressBar JTooltip JSeparator 10 Top-level containers JApplet JFrame JDialog 11 General-purpose containers JToolBar JTabbedPane JScrollBar JSplitPane JPanel 12 Special-purpose containers JInternalFrame JLayeredPane JRootPane 13 Internationalization 14 References: the Java tutorial ● Graphical User Interfaces – ● Creating GUI with JFC/Swing –