June 2017
Beginner
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A graphical user interface (GUI; p. 2) presents a user-friendly mechanism for interacting with an application. A GUI gives an application a distinctive look-and-feel (p. 2).
Providing different applications with consistent, intuitive user-interface components gives users a sense of familarity with a new application, so that they can learn it more quickly.
GUIs are built from GUI components (p. 2)—sometimes called controls or widgets.
As of Java SE 6 update 10, Java comes bundled with a new, elegant, cross-platform look-and-feel known as Nimbus (p. 4).
To set Nimbus as the default for all Java applications, create a swing.properties text file in the lib folder of ...
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