Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing

Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
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Trail: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
The Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing trail tells you how to create graphical user
interfaces (GUIs) for applications and applets, using the Swing components. The Swing
TMcomponents, which are part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), can be used with
TM TMeither JDK 1.1 or the Java 2 platform.
Note: This trail does not tell you how to use the AWT components. If you
need to write a JDK 1.0 program or a 1.1 program that doesn't use Swing
components, please download the old UI trail, Creating a User Interface
(AWT Only).
This trail is available as a book, The JFC Swing Tutorial .
Besides having the usual advantages of a book (such as
portability and readability) this 950-page tome contains a CD
that has API documentation, the JFC 1.1 and JDK 1.1 releases,
the latest available releases of the Java 2 SDK, and lots of other
goodies.
A shorter, simpler introduction to using the Swing components is published
in the book The Java Tutorial, 3rd Edition . You can find it online here:
User Interfaces that Swing: A Quick Start Guide.
Getting Started with Swing is a quick start lesson. First it gives you a bit of
background about the JFC and Swing. Then it tells you how to compile and run
programs -- both applications and applets -- that use Swing components. Finally, it walks
you through the code for a simple program. ...