Core Web Programming, Second Edition

Chapter 15. Advanced Swing

Topics in This Chapter

• Using custom data models and renderers

• Adding and removing choices from a JList

• Displaying custom components in a JList

• Creating dynamic JTree displays

• Customizing icons in a JTree display

• Creating a scrollable JTable

• Editing cells in a JTable

• Printing Swing components

• Updating Swing components in a thread-safe manner

In this chapter, we focus on three advanced components available in Swing for building robust graphical user interfaces: JList, JTree, and JTable. A Swing list is similar to the familiar AWT List (Section 13.18, “List Boxes”); however, instead of just displaying a list of strings, a JList can also display icons. The JTree and JTable have no counterpart in the AWT package. A JTree displays ...