Core Swing: Advanced Programming (Core Series) (Paperback)

Now that the Swing classes have been in the marketplace for several months, thousands of Java programmers are ready to go beyond the first round of Swing books. In short, they're ready for Core Swing: Advanced Programming, the most advanced Swing techniques ever published! Kim Topley picks up where he left off in Core Java Foundation Classes, providing even more sophisticated techniques for working with text, trees, and tables, creating your own Swing components; and much more. In this book, Topley has taken on many of the toughest Swing issues raised by programmers in the Java newsgroups -- and he's also addressed three key topics many earlier Swing books missed: undo/redo, drag-and-drop, and accessibility.

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The experienced developer's guide to the Swing classes!

Core Swing helps you deliver the sophisticated Java GUI applications your users demand—with Java Swing techniques that start where other books leave off! Building on his bestseller Core Java Foundation Classes, Kim Topley takes on the toughest Swing issues raised by programmers throughout the Java community and addresses crucial topics first-generation Swing books completely missed.

With Core Swing, you'll discover how to exploit the Swing tree and table controls to the fullest, customize and create your own text fields with features that sophisticated users expect, build your own editors and file viewers, and much more. There is complete and in-depth coverage of Swing's HTML support, a topic barely addressed in other Swing books. You'll also find detailed coverage of undo/redo and drag-and-drop, with lengthy, fully documented code examples, in the book and on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Every Core Series book:

• DEMONSTRATES how to write commercial quality code
• FEATURES dozens of nontrivial programs and examples—no toy code!
• FOCUSES on the features and functions most important to real developers
• PROVIDES objective, unbiased coverage of cutting-edge technologies—no hype!

Core Swing: Advanced Programming delivers:

• State-of-the-art insights into the Swing classes that other books can't touch
• Practical techniques for building the Swing components you really need
• Fast-track techniques for making the most of text controls, editors, tables, and drag-and-drop
• Hundreds of professional-level code examples

CD-ROM

The accompanying CD-ROM includes all of the book's detailed code examples a bonus chapter taken from Kim Topley's first book, Core Java Foundation Classes, and trial versions of SwingBuilder from SwingSoft and Netbeans.