Java Swing, 2nd Edition

Conventions

This book follows certain conventions for font usage, property tables, and class diagrams. Understanding these conventions up-front makes it easier to use this book.

This book uses the following font conventions:

Italic

Used for filenames, file extensions, URLs, application names, emphasis, and new terms when they are first introduced

Constant width

Used for Java class names, functions, variables, components, properties, data types, events, and snippets of code that appear in text

Constant width bold

Used for commands you enter at the command line and to highlight new code inserted in a running example

Constant width italic

Used to annotate output

Tip

This icon designates a note, which is an important aside to the nearby text.

Warning

This icon designates a warning relating to the nearby text.

Properties Tables

Swing components are all JavaBeans. Properties provide a powerful way to work with JavaBeans, so we use tables throughout the book to present lists of properties. Table P-3 is an example from the hypothetical JFoo class that shows how we use these tables.

Table P-3. Properties of the fictional JFoo class

Property	Data type	get	is	set	Default value
opaque b, o, 1.4	boolean	·	·	·	true
bbound, ooverridden, 1.4since 1.4 See also properties from the JComponent class (Table 3-6).

Properties tables tell you the data type; whether it has is, get, and set methods; and its default value, if any. Footnotes to the properties tables tell you, among other things, whether a property is ...