Swing?

Apodysophilia · 04-02-2003, 07:33 PM

what is it? all i know you can make window programs in it(i think)

any and all info would help, and some tutorials if you have some, thank you

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 05:44 AM

I am assuming that you are talking about import javax.swing.awt.*; or something along those lines. what it is is a collection of classes that allows you to use certain tools. Yes, one of those tools is the JFrame which is windowed programs. If you want more clarification you can go to the java documentation page here and at the top there will be a link for javax.swing.

Apodysophilia · 04-03-2003, 07:14 AM

thanks, i am still wondering if it is usefull to learn how to use swing?

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 07:16 AM

Definately useful. I use it all the time for my programming class and stuff. check out the documentation there are tons of useful tools there.

sno2dude · 04-03-2003, 07:50 AM

Basically, if you want to make programs that are going to be running outside of the command prompt, you need to learn to use javax.swing because that is all the items you need. (buttons, menus, Frames, etc)

Apodysophilia · 04-03-2003, 11:42 AM

any good place to get tutorials on that?? (i say good because anyone can do a google search:p ) or just any place to start?

sno2dude · 04-04-2003, 06:15 AM

sadly that is one that i cannot answer because all that i learned about swing was from my CS1121 and 1122 courses. Try the library though, any book on Java programming should cover swing.... if you can find the book by Dave Poplawski, thats the one we use for the class... hes also the teacher.... coincidence? i think not! anyways though, if you know how to read the java documentation, you really can learn from that somewhat.

Apodysophilia · 04-04-2003, 06:59 AM

oh well, cool thanks

, i love this forum more everyday :rock:

keeper · 04-06-2003, 06:16 PM

If you did a google search you surely found
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing

I've started coding swing about one week ago, and I basically needed just this url (and java api documentation) to make a quite complex GUI

Apodysophilia · 04-06-2003, 06:29 PM

yeah i found that last night

jeff · 04-06-2003, 07:09 PM

Swing is a user interface toolkit - buttons, tables, and trees (oh my!).

Now, I'll admit that I'm just a tad biased - I'm one of the development engineers on the project at Sun - but one of the spiffiest things about Swing is that since the source code is fully available, and the toolkit is entirely written in Java, you can easily extend/modify the base components to your heart's desire.

Oh, also check out The Swing Connection for lots of in-depth articles written by the the engineers who wrote the toolkit.

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc

jeff

Apodysophilia · 04-06-2003, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jeff
Swing is a user interface toolkit - buttons, tables, and trees (oh my!).

Now, I'll admit that I'm just a tad biased - I'm one of the development engineers on the project at Sun - but one of the spiffiest things about Swing is that since the source code is fully available, and the toolkit is entirely written in Java, you can easily extend/modify the base components to your heart's desire.

Oh, also check out The Swing Connection for lots of in-depth articles written by the the engineers who wrote the toolkit.

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc

jeff

cool thanx:rock: