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Swing Hacks
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Swing Hacks

by Joshua Marinacci, Chris Adamson
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
22h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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508 | Index
events (continued)
ListDataEvent class, 60
mouse (see mouse events)
order of firing, 472–478
property change, 232
UI components, 176
window (operating system), 178
Excel spreadsheet, exporting table data
to, 130–133
exec( ) (Runtime), 409
calling open program, 412
launching email program, 456
Explorer (Windows)
icon, 182–185
status bar, 188–193
extension hook (JFileChooser), 164
F
fading to nothing, 222
file choosers
adding right-click context
menu, 149–153
displaying shortcuts, 154–157
image previewer, 164–167
previewing ZIP and JAR
files, 167–174
Windows shortcut support, 158–163
File class
createTempFile( ), 331
proxies, 168–172
FileItem class, 76
files
drag-and-drop, 330–335
linked, 154
opening on Mac OS X, 412
FileSystemView class, 161, 168
custom (ZipFileSystemView), 172
file icons, 499
getSystemIcon( ), 332
fileToString( ), 28
FileView class, 154, 161
fillRoundRect( ), 314
filter box, 58
FilterField class, 59
FilterModel class, 59
filters, adding history, 63–66
find( ), 260
fireUpdate( ), 98, 100
firing events in proper order, 472–478
flavor of data (see data flavors)
FloatControl class, 401
Swing widget for, 403–405
focus events, pop-up windows and, 45
Font class, createFont( ), 307
font metrics, 10
fonts
changing style or size in text
components, 436
changing throughout an
application, 304–307
email icons, 458
global anti-aliased, 278–282
HTML effects, 276
loading new at runtime, 307–309
foreground property (List), 69 ...
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