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Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days (Covers Java 11/12), 8th Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days (Covers Java 11/12), 8th Edition

by Rogers Cadenhead
January 2020
Beginner
672 pages
18h 17m
English
Sams
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Lesson 14. Developing Swing Applications

Designing a graphical user interface with Swing has a lot in common with creating a web page. Components are placed on the interface in a manner that makes them move around depending on the size of the space they’ve been given to occupy.

You could see this in the Swing interfaces created thus far by resizing the frame as they were running.

This fluidity is a necessary part of the Web because it’s presented on so many different devices, screen widths, and resolutions.

In Java, it helps ensure that a user interface will still display reasonably well and function properly on all the platforms where a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) has been installed.

This final lesson on Swing provides some additional features ...

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