February 2014
Beginner
1248 pages
62h 25m
English
This chapter completes our introduction to GUIs. In this chapter, we discussed additional GUI topics, such as menus, sliders, pop-up menus, multiple-document interfaces, tabbed panes and Java’s pluggable look-and-feel. All these components can be added to existing applications to make them easier to use and understand. We also presented additional layout managers for organizing and sizing GUI components. In the next chapter, you’ll learn about multithreading, which allows you to specify that an application should perform multiple tasks at once.
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