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PART I Getting started 1  1 A Java refresher 3  1.1 What is Java? 4  1.2 What is AWT? 5  1.3 The Java event models 6  Java 1.0 7  Java 1.1 and beyond 8  1.4 JavaBeans 11  1.5 A review of components, listeners, and events 13  1.6 Layout manager refresher 16  BorderLayout 16  CardLayout 17  FlowLayout 18  GridLayout 19  GridBagLayout 20  Combining multiple layouts 22  1.7 Minimum software requirements 23  1.8 Delivering a final product 25  1.9 Just-In-Time compilers 27  1.10 Chapter summary 28  2 Swing basics 29  2.1 What is JFC? 30  2.2 What is Swing? 30  Swing package overview 31  2.3 Why use Swing? 33  JavaBeans compliance 34  Lightweight framework 34  Interaction with external resources 36  2.4 Model-View-Controller architecture 36  How MVC works 37  What can MVC accomplish? 37  Custom rendering 38  Custom data models 38  2.5 Delegates 40  What are delegates? 40  The ComponentUI class 40  2.6 Pluggable LookAndFeel 41  2.7 Creating UI objects 43  Creating a simple component 43  2.8 JComponent, the mother of Swing 45  Pluggable look and feel 46  Keystroke handling 46  Action objects 46  Borders 46  Accessibility 47  Other features of JComponent 47  Controlling component size 47  JComponent hierarchy 48  JComponent constants 48  JComponent fields 49  JComponent constructors 49  JComponent significant method groupings 49  2.9 Chapter summary 53  PART II Using Swing components 55  3 Frames and panels 57  3.1 JFrame 58  A JFrame application 58  JFrame hierarchy 61  JFrame variables 61  JFrame constructors 62  JFrame significant method groupings 62  3.2 JApplet 62  A JApplet sample applet 63  JApplet hierarchy 64  JApplet variables 64  JApplet constructors 64  JApplet significant method groupings 64  3.3 Creating simple panels 65  JPanel hierarchy 66  JPanel constructors 66  3.4 Simple border types 66  Creating a custom border class 68  3.5 Compound border creation 70  3.6 Swing layout managers 72  3.7 JRootPane in detail 76  JRootPane hierarchy 77  JRootPane variables 77  JRootPane constructors 78  JRootPane significant method groupings 78  3.8 Layered panes 78  Layered pane basics 79  A layered pane example 80  JLayeredPane hierarchy 83  JLayeredPane constants 83  JLayeredPane variables 84  JLayeredPane constructors 84  JLayeredPane significant method groupings 84  3.9 Chapter summary 84  4 Tabbed panes, scroll panes, and split panes 87  4.1 Tabbed panes 88  Creating a tabbed pane 90  Adding and inserting pages 90  Removing pages 92  Selecting pages 92  Adding images to tabs 93  Enabling and disabling tabs 93  A complete JTabbedPane example 94  JTabbedPane hierarchy 98  JTabbedPane variables 98  JTabbedPane constructors 98  JTabbedPane significant method groupings 99  4.2 Scrolling panes 100  An example using JScrollPane 102  Controlling the scroll bars 104  Controlling the scrolling programmatically 105  Controlling the size of scroll bars 105  Creating scrollable components 106  JScrollPane hierarchy 108  JScrollPane constructors 108  JScrollPane significant method groupings 109  4.3 Split panes 109  Setting the divider size 113  Controlling the divider position 113  Intercepting JSplitPane events 114  JSplitPane hierarchy 115  JSplitPane constants 115  JSplitPane variables 116  JSplitPane constructors 117  JSplitPane significant method groupings 117  4.4 Advanced scrolling 118  4.5 Chapter summary 123  5 Labels and buttons 125  5.1 Basic user interface components 126  5.2 Labels 126  A JLabel sample program 127  Setting fonts and colors 129  Text alignment 129  Adding an image to a label 130  JLabel hierarchy 132  JLabel variables 132  JLabel constructors 132  JLabel significant method groupings 133  5.3 AbstractButton 134  Listening for button events 134  Adding icons to buttons 137  Enabling and disabling buttons 139  Adding a keyboard mnemonic 139  AbstractButton variables 141  AbstractButton significant method groupings 141  5.4 Push buttons 143  Default buttons 143  JButton constructors 144  The JButton API 144  5.5 Toggle buttons 144  JToggleButton hierarchy 147  JToggleButton constructors 147  5.6 Check boxes 148  Special layout considerations 148  JCheckBox hierarchy 151  JCheckBox constructors 151  5.7 Radio buttons 152  JRadioButton hierarchy 152  JRadioButton constructors 152  5.8 Chapter summary 153  6 Text management 155  6.1 JTextComponent 156  Clipboard operations 158  Saving and loading 158  JTextComponent hierarchy 159  JTextComponent constants 159  JTextComponent constructors 159  JTextComponent significant method groupings 159  6.2 Document handling 161  Document constants 162  Document significant method groupings 163  6.3 Text fields and password fields 165  Associating keyboard mnemonics 166  Special event handling 167  JTextField hierarchy 171  JTextField constructors 171  JPasswordField hierarchy 172  JPasswordField Features 172  JPasswordField constructors 173  JPasswordField significant method groupings 173  6.4 Text areas 173  JTextArea hierarchy 176  JTextArea constructors 176  JTextArea significant method groupings 177  6.5 Combo boxes 177  Adding and removing list items 180  Selecting items 181  Allowing field editing 182  Other combo box tricks 182  JComboBox hierarchy 182  JComboBox constructors 182  JComboBox significant method groupings 183  6.6 Viewing HTML and other content types 184  Listening for hyperlink changes 187  JEditorPane hierarchy 189  JEditorPane constructors 189  JEditorPane significant method groupings 189  6.7 Viewing RTF format 190  6.8 Simple document processing 193  6.9 Chapter summary 197  7 Progress bars, scroll bars, and sliders 199  7.1 Progress bars 200  JProgressBar hierarchy 205  JProgressBar variables 205  JProgressBar constructors 206  JProgressBar significant method groupings 206  7.2 Scroll bars 207  JScrollBar hierarchy 211  JScrollBar variables 211  JScrollBar constructors 211  JScrollBar significant method groupings 212  7.3 Sliders 212  Listening for slider activity 216  JSlider hierarchy 217  JSlider variables 217  JSlider constructors 218  JSlider significant method groupings 218  7.4 Chapter summary 219  8 Menus, toolbars, and actions 221  8.1 Menu bars 224  Creating application menus 224  JMenuBar hierarchy 226  JMenuBar constructors 227  JMenuBar significant method groupings 227  8.2 Menus 227  Creating cascading menus 228  JMenu hierarchy 231  JMenu variables 231  JMenu constructors 231  JMenu significant method groupings 232  8.3 Menu items 233  Adding graphics to menu items 239  Adding ToolTips 239  Menu item keyboard mnemonics 240  Responding to a menu selection 241  JMenuItem hierarchy 241  JMenuItem constructors 241  JMenuItem significant method groupings 242  8.4 Check box menu items 242  Managing check box state 244  JCheckBoxMenuItem hierarchy 245  JCheckBoxMenuItem variables 245  JCheckBoxMenuItem constructors 245  JCheckBoxMenuItem significant method groupings 246  8.5 Radio button menu items 246  JRadioButtonMenuItem hierarchy 248  JRadioButtonMenuItem variables 248  JRadioButtonMenuItem constructors 248  8.6 Pop-up menus 249  JPopupMenu hierarchy 253  JPopupMenu constructors 253  JPopupMenu significant method groupings 253  8.7 Toolbars 254  Toolbar basics 255  A toolbar with many faces 258  Docking and undocking toolbars 259  Adding other components to a toolbar 260  JToolBar hierarchy 261  JToolBar constructors 261  JToolBar significant method groupings 261  8.8 Actions 261  Action basics 262  Common actions for menus and toolbars 263  8.9 Chapter summary 266  9 Dialogs and internal frames 267  9.1 Simple dialogs 269  Handling the close operation 272  Modal vs. nonmodal dialogs 273  A more advanced JDialog example 275  JDialog hierarchy 280  JDialog variables 280  JDialog constructors 280  JDialog significant method groupings 281  9.2 Option dialogs 282  JOptionPane hierarchy 286  JOptionPane constants 286  JOptionPane variables 287  JOptionPane constructors 289  JOptionPane significant method groupings 290  9.3 The color chooser 293  The JColorChooser dialog 293  JColorChooser as a component 296  JColorChooser hierarchy 299  JColorChooser constants 299  JColorChooser constructors 299  JColorChooser significant method groupings 300  9.4 The file chooser 300  JFileChooser hierarchy 305  JFileChooser variables 305  JFileChooser constructors 306  JFileChooser significant method groupings 306  9.5 Internal frames 307  JInternalFrame hierarchy 312  JInternalFrame constants 312  JInternalFrame variables 313  JInternalFrame constructors 314  JInternalFrame significant method groupings 314  9.6 Chapter summary 316  10 List boxes 317  10.1 A simple JList example 318  10.2 A more advanced JList example 320  10.3 Listening for list activity 325  10.4 Custom data model 325  10.5 Basic custom list rendering 328  10.6 Advanced custom list rendering 332  10.7 JList class information 335  JList hierarchy 335  JList constructors 335  JList significant method groupings 336  10.8 Chapter summary 338  11 Trees 341  11.1 Basic tree implementation 342  A basic JTree example 343  Adding new tree items 345  Custom data models 348  Custom rendering 351  Editing tree nodes 357  11.2 Listening for tree actions 360  Listening for tree selections 360  Listening for tree expansions 362  11.3 Tips and tricks for enhancing trees 364  Hiding the root node 365  Expanding and collapsing the tree 365  Selecting and deselecting nodes 365  11.4 JTree class information 366  JTree hierarchy 366  JTree constants 366  JTree variables 367  JTree constructors 368  JTree significant method groupings 369  11.5 Chapter summary 372  12 Tables 375  12.1 Basic table use 376  The simplest of table examples 377  A more complex table example 379  12.2 Adding a custom data model 382  A simple data model example 383  12.3 Adding custom rendering 386  Simple table cell rendering 386  12.4 Rendering column headers 392  Simple header rendering 392  12.5 Listening for table actions 397  Detecting table selections 397  Detecting column property changes 399  12.6 Other tips and tricks 402  Eliminating the annoying gray background 403  Intercepting mouse and keyboard events 403  12.7 Putting it all together 405  12.8 JTable class information 421  JTable hierarchy 421  JTable constants 422  JTable variables 422  JTable constructors 423  JTable significant method groups 424  12.9 Chapter summary 427  PART III Advanced topics 429  13 Creating custom look and feel 431  13.1 Model-view-controller architecture revisited 432  13.2 Why create a look and feel? 433  Corporate standard user interface 433  Ease of portability 433  New component creation 434  13.3 UIManager and JFC look and feel 434  Listing available look-and-feel libraries 435  Changing the current look and feel 437  13.4 Creating a look 440  Building a new button 440  Building chrome menus 454  Supporting themes 462  13.5 Chapter summary 468  14 Optimizing JFC applications 469  14.1 Why optimize? 470  14.2 Using optimization tools 470  A poorly performing test case 470  Sun’s JDK profiler 471  Profiling with Java WorkShop 474  Profiling with OptimizeIt 475  A custom profiler class 477  Native compilation—the easy way out 479  14.3 General rules for Java optimization 481  Loop optimization 481  String handling 483  Numerical data handling 485  Native code 487  Other tips for optimizing Java code 487  14.4 Optimizing JFC applications 488  Adding threads to a JFC application 488  Using JFC timers to reduce CPU usage 490  Other tips for optimizing JFC applications 491  14.5 Chapter summary 492  Appendix A Visual development tools 495  Appendix B Other tools 505  Appendix C Sources of information 515  Appendix D References 519  Index 523 een java and C++ Appendix C Moving C/C++ Legacy Code to Java