- Used Book in Good Condition.
Java Swing, long regarded as the authoritative book on using the
Swing classes, is available in a new edition that builds on a
solid foundation in exploring the Java 2 Swing additions and
modifications. This is a big, tremendously detailed, exhaustively
researched, and ultimately authoritative reference that pushes
the limits of what a book can do toward eliminating the necessity
of writing experimental programs to see how Swing classes work in
practice. You'll find in these pages bits of software that show
how most of Swing works: all of the major features get lavish
attention, while most of the minor classes are demonstrated
adequately, as well.You could probably find demonstrations free
of charge on the Internet, however. The true value of this work
is in the comments its five authors have attached to their
copious examples. They can be quite specific: at least one such
segment warns that default Swing behavior violates Mac OS X user
interface guidelines and explains how to work around the problem.
Another section explains how the methods of the UndoableEdit
class can be used in various ways, to implement different user
interface behavior options. Some readers will head straight to
the O'Reilly Web site, where they can grab the code and examine
it in an editor rather than in print--code listings take up a lot
of space here--but everyone will appreciate the concise
hierarchy, method, and property documentation, as well as the
wisdom contained in the prose. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Swing classes for creating graphical user
interfaces in the Java programming language. It covers all the
windowing stuff--dialogs, buttons, containers, layouts, lists,
and that kind of thing--as well as tables, trees,
text-manipulation classes, formatted text, drag and drop, and
accessibility support.
