The Swing Connection

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About Swing
Component Gallery	Graphical overview of the Swing components
Getting Started With Swing	Overview of the Swing/Java Foundation Classes. A good place to start
Swing Architecture	A more in-depth look at the architecture and design of Swing	4/98
The Java Look & Feel	About the design of the Java Look & Feel

Working with Swing Components
Containers	Explaining the heirarchy of Swing windows
JList	Advanced JList Programming
JTree	Understanding the Tree Model
Tree Table, part 1	Building a Tree Table, part 1
Tree Table, part 2	Building a Tree Table, part 2

Note: for Swing Text articles, see below.

Putting it all together
Accessibility	Not just a nice thing to do -- it's now the law.
Card Panel	An alternative to the AWT Card Layout	1/4//00
Drag & Drop	DnD basics for AWT and Swing
Dynamic Action Listeners	Generating Action Listeners Dynamically
Dynamic Action Listeners, part 2	Updated article on Generating Action Listeners Dynamically	1/21/00
Component Orientation	How JFC Components support bi-directional text.
Java Help	How to download and use the Java Help package
Key Bindings	Using Keyboard Bindings in Swing
Mixing Heavyweights	How to mix Heavy and Lightweight components in a Swing app
Painting	Details on the AWT & Swing paint mechanisms	12/98
Performance	Performance Secrets and techniques
Persistance using XML	Long-Term Persistence For JavaBeans Using XML	11//99
Swing Threads 1	Introductory Threads Article	2/98
Swing Threads 2	Using a Swing Worker Thread	7/98
Swing Threads 3	Swing Threads - Working with Asynchronous Models	8/99

The Swing Text Package
Text Overview	Introduction to the Swing Text package
Text Attributes	How the text package associates attributes with text
Text Element Buffer	A closeup look at modeling text in documents
Text Elements Interface	Explains how the Text package's Element interface works
Tabbing in Text	An overview of how the text package handles tabs
Customizing a Text Editor	How to add customized features to a text editor
Text Concurrency	Currency and the Swing Text package

The PLAF Papers - About the Pluggable Look & Feel
The Java Look & Feel	JLF High Level Specification
The LookAndFeel Class	The "Look and Feel" Class Reference Guide
Cross Platform L&F Design	Discussion about the JLF running on different platforms
JLF Tweaking	An older article that goes over several alternative JLF design choices
JLF Metal Report	An older article about some of the past JLF design issues

The Archive - the following are old and out of date articles. There's still useful information contained therein, so we thought we'd keep them around
JTable	Introductory article on how to use tables in Swing

Note: we are feverishly working on getting all the old Swing Connection articles back online. Please hold on, we promise to have them back shortly.

[ This page was updated: Monday, 14-Feb-2000 15:46:26 MST ]

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