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Chapter 12, Miscellany

#91 Check Your Mail with Swing

HACK

moveMouse(delete, delete, 1000);

moveMouse(delete, showme, 500);

} catch (Exception ex) {

System.out.println(""+ex);

}

}

The event handler moves the cursor from the

showme

button, which is where

the cursor will already be anyway, to the

info toolbar button over a period

of two seconds. After that, the cursor will hop from button to button taking

one second to move with a one second pause over each button. Finally, the

cursor rushes back to the

showme button in a half-second. It is important to

return the cursor to its starting position so that the user won’t have to hunt

for it after the animation is complete. It’s best to always return things to the

state you found them.

H A C K

#91

Check Your Mail with Swing Hack #91

Add email checking to your application with just a few method calls.

As email becomes a bigger part of our daily lives, I have seen it creep into

more and more places. My email program alerts me when there is new mail.

I can check my email via the phone. I log in to my web mail from an Inter-

net cafe. Email is everywhere, so why shouldn’t it be in your Swing applica-

tion? This hack shows how to embed in your application an email checker

that shows the current number of unread messages and can launch the

user’s email application.

Dealing with email servers can be a complicated and tricky business. To

help address these issues, ...