Chapter 16. Getting in the Swing of Things: Designing a GUI for BudgetPro
Sometimes you gotta have a GUI; even we will admit that command lines only go so far. When it comes to simple interactions with casual users, a Graphical User Interface is a great step forward ... if it’s done well. The toolkit for building such an interface with Java is called Swing. The original Java toolkit is AWT (A Windowing Toolkit), and is still in use, but much less attractive. We’ll take a quick look at some major pieces of Swing, and show a complete example—a GUI for our budget application. After this example, you will have the tools you need to construct some real GUIs on your own.
What You Will Learn
The Swing GUI paradigm.
A simple standalone Swing application. ...
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