CHAPTER 20 GUI BUILDERS
The preceding chapter described how Groovy markup can be used to assemble XML structures. A graphical application is an assembly of Swing components, nested one within another in a hierarchical manner. For example, we might have panels nested within other panels to construct a user interface. Equally, we might have text fields and buttons in a user dialog. Hence, the native syntax of Groovy markup can also be used for Swing applications.
20.1 SWINGBUILDER
A graphical application can be developed using the Swing framework (Eckstein et al., 2002; Topley, 1998). This is a large and complex library consisting of over 300 classes and interfaces. The software engineers that developed it made full use of leading edge technologies, ...
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