CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Swing
In this chapter, you will learn
- What Swing is
- The difference between a character-based interface and a graphical user interface
- How to develop the simplest Swing program
- What a JFrame is and how it is made up of different components
- How to add components to a JFrame
- What a layout manager is and different types of layout managers in Swing
- How to create reusable frames
- How to handle events
- How to handle mouse events and how to use the adapter class to handle mouse events
What Is Swing?
Swing provides graphical user interface (GUI) components to develop Java applications with a rich set of graphics such as windows, ...
Get Beginning Java 8 APIs, Extensions and Libraries Swing, JavaFX, JavaScript, JDBC and Network Programming APIs now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
