Chapter 1. THE SWING TEXT COMPONENTS: CREATING CUSTOMIZED INPUT FIELDS
Topics in this Chapter
Introduction to the Swing Text Components
Text Component Architecture
Custom Text Components
Keymaps and Keyboard Bindings
Creating a Custom Caret
The Swing text components are much more powerful than their Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) counterparts. This is partly because of the more complete application programming interface (API) that the Swing components provide, but the most useful new features come from the model-view-controller architecture around which the new components are built. There is so much functionality available from the Swing text components and so many ways to customize them that a whole book could be devoted to the subject. In this chapter, ...
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