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Swing Articles
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How can we implement a scrollable JPanel in Java?
JPanelA JPanel is a subclass of JComponent (a subclass of a Container class). Therefore, JPanel is also a Container.A JPanel is an empty area that can be used either to layout other components including other panels.In a JPanel, we can add fields, labels, buttons, checkboxes, and images also.The Layout Managers such as FlowLayout, GridLayout, BorderLayout and other layout managers helps us to control the sizes, positions, and alignment of the components using JPanel.The important methods of a JPanel class are getAccessibleContext(), getUI(), updateUI() and paramString().We can also implement a JPanel with vertical and horizontal scrolls by adding the panel object to JScrollPane.Exampleimport java.awt.*; ...
Read MoreHow can we implement editable JComboBox in Java?
JComboBoxA JComboBox can extend JComponent class and it is a combination of a text field and a drop-down list from which the user can choose a value.If the text field portion of the control is editable, the user can enter a value in the field or edit a value retrieved from the drop-down list.By default, the user not allowed to edit the data in the text field portion of the JComboBox. If we want to allow the user to edit the text field, call setEditable(true) method.A JComboBox can generate an ActionListener, ChangeListener or ItemListener when the user actions on a combo box.A ...
Read MoreHow to implement a program to count the number in Java?
The program uses a JLabel to hold a count label, a JTextField component to hold the number count, JButton component to create add, remove and reset buttons. When we click the add button, the count in the JTextField will get incremented by '1' and by clicking the remove button the count will be decremented by '1'. If we click the Reset button, it will reset the count to '0'.Exampleimport java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class CounterTest extends JFrame implements ActionListener { private JLabel label; private JTextField text; private JButton addBtn, ...
Read MoreHow many types of JDialog boxes can be created in Java?
A JDialog is a subclass of Dialog class and it does not hold minimize and maximize buttons at the top right corner of the window. We can create two types of JDialog boxes.in JavaModal DialogNon-Modal DialogModal JDialogIn Java, When a modal dialog window is active, all the user inputs are directed to it and the other parts of the application are inaccessible until this model dialog is closed.Non-Modal JDialogIn Java, When a non-modal dialog window is active, the other parts of the application are still accessible as normal and inputs can be directed to them, while this non-modal dialog window ...
Read MoreHow can we implement line wrap and word wrap text inside a JTextArea in Java?
A JTextArea is a multi-line text component to display text or allow the user to enter the text and it will generate a CaretListener interface when we are trying to implement the functionality of the JTextArea component. A JTextArea class inherits the JTextComponent class in Java.In the below example, we can implement a JTextArea class with a user can select either word wrap or line wrap checkboxes using the ItemListener interface.Exampleimport javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; public class JTextAreaTest { public static void main(String[] args ) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { ...
Read MoreWhat is the importance of the GridBagConstraints class in Java?
A GridBagLayout is a very flexible layout manager that allows us to position the components relative to one another using constraints. Each GridBagLayout uses a dynamic rectangular grid of cells with each component occupying one or more cells called its display area. Each component managed by a GridBagLayout is associated with a GridBagConstraints instance that specifies how the component is laid out within its display area. GridBagConstraintsWe can customize a GridBagConstraints object by setting one or more of its public instance variables. These variables specify the component location, size, growth factor, anchor, inset, filling, and padding.gridx: An int value that specifies the leftmost cell that the ...
Read MoreWhat is the importance of SwingUtilities class in Java?
In Java, after swing components displayed on the screen, they can be operated by only one thread called Event Handling Thread. We can write our code in a separate block and can give this block reference to Event Handling thread. The SwingUtilities class has two important static methods, invokeAndWait() and invokeLater() to use to put references to blocks of code onto the event queue.Syntaxpublic static void invokeAndWait(Runnable doRun) throws InterruptedException, InvocationTargetException public static void invokeLater(Runnable doRun)The parameter doRun is a reference to an instance of Runnable interface. In this case, the Runnable interface will not be passed to the constructor of a Thread. The Runnable interface is simply ...
Read MoreWhat are the differences between JFrame and JDialog in Java?
JFrameThe components added to the frame are referred to as its contents, these are managed by the contentPane. To add a component to a JFrame, we must use its contentPane instead.A JFrame contains a window with title, border, (optional) menu bar and user-specified components.A JFrame can be moved, resized, iconified and it is not a subclass of JComponent.By default, JFrame is displayed in the upper-left corner of the screen. To display a frame at a specified location, we can use the setLocation(x, y) method in the JFrame class.Exampleimport java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class JFrameDemo { public static void main(String s[]) { ...
Read MoreWhy AWT components are heavy-weight while Swing components are light-weight in Java?
AWT stands for Abstract Window ToolKit and it supports Java GUI programming. It is a portable GUI library for Stand-alone Java applications/applets. The AWT provides the connection between our application and the native GUI while Java Swing implements a set of GUI components that build on AWT technology and it can provide a pluggable look and feel. Java Swing is implemented entirely in the Java programming language.First of all, by a heavy-weight, it means the code will take comparatively more time to load and it will consume more System resources. AWT is considered to be heavy-weight because its components are dependent ...
Read MoreHow to add a title to JTable in Java Swing?
To display a title to the JTable, you can set a title for the JPanel, which already consists of a JTable.Here, we are using createTitledBorder() for the JPanel to set the title for the panel border that would eventually work for table title.Let’s say the following is the JPanel −JPanel panel = new JPanel();Now, use setBorder() and the BorderFactory class to set a title border for the panel that would be our table title as well −panel.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder( BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(), "My Demo Table", TitledBorder.LEFT, TitledBorder.TOP));The following is an example to add a title to a JTable −Examplepackage my; import javax.swing.BorderFactory; import ...
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