17. GUI Components: Part 2

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To create and manipulate sliders, menus, pop-up menus and windows.

• To change the look-and-feel of a GUI, using Swing’s pluggable look-and-feel.

• To create a multiple-document interface with JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame.

• To use additional layout managers.

An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.

Billy Wilder

...the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Edward Hoagland

You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

Jessie Tarbox Beals

Outline

17.1   Introduction ...

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