http://www.swingwiki.org/ 2008-05-09T21:50:50+01:00 text/html 2007-04-21T13:35:33+01:00 twall@151.203.246.99 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:irregular_frame_shape?rev=1177176933 Irregular shaped Frame AWT top level windows (and frames) are always rectangular, but there are some workarounds which enable you to create the ilusion of non-rectangular windows. Platform-independent solution You can use a trick and create a rec... text/html 2007-02-26T17:08:10+01:00 maarten@81.207.20.120 http://www.swingwiki.org/best:use_worker_thread_for_long_operations?rev=1172527690 [Added remark about syntax error in example code] Use worker thread for long-running tasks Swing uses a single threading model to draw components on screen. Every request for repaint is queued in the render queue, and this single thread executes the painting code for every component. If you have a... text/html 2007-01-02T06:20:01+01:00 shantha@210.210.13.126 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:animated_label?rev=1167736801 Animated JLabel Simple animations can be achieved by using a JLabel, series of images and setIcon(). You can create a panel with a overridden paint() (or paintComponent()) - and call repaint from a Timer, but then you have to get much more involved ... text/html 2006-12-28T13:45:02+01:00 fabioingrao@67.91.200.194 http://www.swingwiki.org/workaround:jeditorpane_scroll?rev=1167331502 Automatic JEditorPane scroll When changing HTML content inside JEditorPane, the scroll bar always goes down to the end - if you want to show the start of new page neither scrollTo(Anchor), nor getVerticalScrollBar().setValue(0) will work. However, m... text/html 2006-12-21T19:03:58+01:00 gojko@86.143.205.29 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:custom_cursor_shape?rev=1166745838 Custom Cursor shape Here's how to create a custom cursor shape from an image file: Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); setCursor(kit.createCustomCursor(kit.getImage("image.png"),new Point(0, 0), "Cursor")&#... text/html 2006-10-29T16:06:52+01:00 dmdevito@82.123.22.178 http://www.swingwiki.org/other:common_components?rev=1162156012 Common Components This page goal is to list mature common components. Both words, "mature" and "common", are important here because one may find plenty of componens lists out there, but these lists are often too wide open to any ... text/html 2006-10-25T09:01:10+01:00 dmdevito@145.242.3.30 http://www.swingwiki.org/other:external_tips?rev=1161781270 External Tips myswing Santhosh Kumar collection of Swing tips Java CodeGuru: Swing Java CodeGuru: Swing ... text/html 2006-10-24T16:13:28+01:00 dmdevito@82.123.132.52 http://www.swingwiki.org/table_of_contents?rev=1161720808 Table of contents Hands on step-by-step guides for Swing programming Table of contents Introduction to Swing Building Screen Elements Interacting with Users Best practices Avoid double scroll Link labels and components Modify preferred size Scr... text/html 2006-10-19T17:26:19+01:00 chbeer@84.61.175.253 http://www.swingwiki.org/best:use_classloader_for_resources?rev=1161293179 Use ClassLoader to load resources To load images in applications (and any other resources), do not use absolute paths. You cannot know where the user will install the application or will he start it in the application root directory. Instead, use the... text/html 2006-10-13T14:15:17+01:00 varan@66.63.147.21 http://www.swingwiki.org/handson:building_screen_elements?rev=1160763317 Building screen elements Swing component model allows you to build complex components by combining and embedding simpler ones. This chapter will show you how to combine components effectively. Introduction to Containers In the component terminolo... text/html 2006-10-11T06:16:20+01:00 dmdevito@145.242.3.30 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:web_browser?rev=1160561780 Web browser in Swing Swing HTML Document rendering engine supports HTML 3.2 and CSS, and is able to show most HTML pages similar to popular browsers. So, using Web pages and an embedded "browser" is a good solution for help systems and onl... text/html 2006-10-10T19:13:50+01:00 dmdevito@192.54.144.226 http://www.swingwiki.org/other:tools?rev=1160522030 Tools Matisse NetBeans Swing editor WindowBuilder the Instantiations commercial Swing designer JFormDesigner a commercial Java/Swing GUI designer IDEA IntelliJ IDEA includes a GUI designer Tool comparison Java GUI Builders a 2005 comparison by ... text/html 2006-10-10T18:19:57+01:00 dmdevito@192.54.144.226 http://www.swingwiki.org/other:frameworks?rev=1160518797 [created] Frameworks JDK 7 is going to include a simple application framework for Swing applications JSR 296: Swing Application Framework the framework JSR A Simple Framework for Desktop Applications the JavaOne'06 TS-3399 session presenting the next JDK sim... text/html 2006-10-10T18:03:40+01:00 dmdevito@192.54.144.226 http://www.swingwiki.org/other:performance?rev=1160517820 Swing performance investigation What does "Swing is Slow" mean? No intrinsic Swing slowness seems existing. If a Swing application appears to be slow, the cause is surely the rest of the program, badly interacting with Swing code, and impacting the... text/html 2006-10-09T17:00:41+01:00 varan@66.63.147.21 http://www.swingwiki.org/start?rev=1160427641 SwingWiki Know a neat Swing trick? Share it with the community! Quick start Start from Table of Contents News 15/Sep/2006 - New chapter of Hands-On Swing - Interacting with users 09/Oct/2006 - New chapter on PageLayout, a Layout Manager - Buil... text/html 2006-10-04T19:27:18+01:00 gojko@86.133.133.175 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:system_tray?rev=1160004438 [java 1.6 java.awt.SystemTray added] System tray with Swing Java 1.6 (in beta) finally has a platform-independent System Tray class - java.awt.SystemTray. For more information, see JavaDoc API on http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/awt/SystemTray.html. There is no platform ind... text/html 2006-10-04T19:24:56+01:00 gojko@86.133.133.175 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:background_image?rev=1160004296 [paintComponent used instead of paint] Background image in a panel To put an image in a background of a panel, you fist have to disable regular background color painting (setOpaque(false)), and then override the paintComponent() method. In the new paintComponent() method, first draw the ... text/html 2006-09-29T09:24:23+01:00 gojko@86.133.133.175 http://www.swingwiki.org/best:thread-safe_listener_processing?rev=1159536263 [EventListenerList comment] Thread-safe listener processing Always think about concurrency when dispatching an event to listeners. During the event dispatching, some new listeners might register themselves, and some old listeners might ask to be removed. So, never use an itera... text/html 2006-09-18T08:09:53+01:00 alexfromsun@192.18.240.11 http://www.swingwiki.org/howto:testing?rev=1158581393 Testing Swing applications http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javapedia/TestingGUIApplications Excellent article on testing gui applications from Wiki on java.net Marathon is a testing framework for GUI applications developed using Java/Swing. Testing s... text/html 2006-09-17T17:30:55+01:00 gojko@86.133.133.175 http://www.swingwiki.org/contact?rev=1158528655 SwingWiki.org maintainers SwingWiki is an open documentation project started by Gojko Adzic and maintained by Swing enthusiasts and volunteers. Web site is hosted by Neuri ltd. We'd love to hear from you. Contact us by e-mail: . ...