Java User Interface Programming with Swing Training Course

Java User Interface Programming with Swing

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4 days hands-on £1,940+VAT

This course can be delivered over the web

Next scheduled date:
Monday January 20^th, 2025 Enrol Now!

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Hands-on presentation of the Swing architecture, components and usage in developing graphical user interfaces

Outline

Swing Component Features

Common features
Main Swing Packages
Similarities & differences to AWT

Containers

Intermediate Containers
Adding Components
Top Level Containers
The Root Pane
The Content Pane

Layout Managers

Component management
Review of simple layout managers
Card Layout
GridBag Layout
Box Layout
Struts, Glue and Rigid Areas
Other Layout Options

Event Handling Review

Events
Event Categories
Listeners Supported by Components
Using an Inner Adapter Class
Using an Anonymous Inner Class

Simple Swing Components

JComponent
Common operations
JLabel features
Buttons
Unformatted Text Components
Combo Boxes
Scrollbars and Sliders
Timers and Progress Bars

The Keyboard Interface

Key Events
Virtual Keys
Managing Focus
Tab Order
KeyStrokes

Menus and Toolbars

Building Menus
Menu Options
Pop-up Menus
Toolbars
Using Actions

Dialog Boxes

Option Dialogs
File Dialogs
File Filters
File Views
Choosing Colours
Custom Dialogs

Specialised Containers

JScrollPane
JSplitPane
JTabbedPane
MDI Applications

More Complex Swing Components

JList
JTable
JTreeView
JSpinner

Text Components

The Document model
Simple Text Components
JTextPane
JEditorPane

Extra Features

Look and Feel
The Clipboard
Drag and Drop
The Undo Package
Supporting assistive technologies

Java2D

Fonts
Geometrical shapes
Areas, strokes and paint
Coordinate transformations
Transparency and composition
Image manipulation
Efficiency tradeoffs

Printing

Creating printer jobs
Print-related dialog boxes
Printing uniform documents
Printing complex documents
Implementing print-preview

Overview

Java is a very effective environment for professional and enterprise software development. The Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and their Swing components take GUI programming to a new level, allowing developers to create lightweight components with a pluggable look-and-feel. Additional functionality allows developers to build professional, robust applications and applets.

In this course, you gain experience using JFC to develop portable GUI applications. You acquire the skills needed to design GUI architectures that can be reused in multiple projects without modification.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Implement GUI that facilitates a customizable look and feel
Develop applications using key foundation services
Develop graphic and GUI components using Swing
Use the features supported in Java for 2-D graphics
Use Java for client-side applets

Audience

This course is for those involved in creating GUI applications, including Java programmers, designers, analysts, engineers and managers. It is also for Java programmers who are already familiar with the basics of the Java graphical frameworks and want to explore the capabilities of Swing, and for programmers with some Java programming experience who would like to explore the potential of Java for designing GUI's and other graphical applications.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to be familiar with the features of the Java Standard Edition (JSE) covered in the Java Programming course. A knowledge of some topics covered in the Java Advanced Programming course is also beneficial.

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Java User Interface Programming with Swing

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