Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

22. GUI Components: Part 2

...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

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

Create and manipulate sliders, menus, pop-up menus and windows.

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

Create a multiple-document interface with JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame ...