1. Introduction
to
Swing

2. What is Swing?
a set of customizable graphical components

3. Not just!

4. Not only
a set of customizable graphical components
but also
next-generation GUI toolkit for enterprise dev

5. Not only
a set of customizable graphical components
but also
next-generation GUI toolkit for enterprise dev

6. Why was Swing born?

7. History <<

8. Java
James Gosling
1991

9. AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit)
is the only one toolkit to develop GUI in initial Java
is based on peer-components

10. What is peer-components?

11. AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit)
#Prob1: similar components not the same in different OS
=> maintenance nightmare
#Prob2: limited functionalities, expensive on memory.

12. AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) is not enough!

13. Aha!!! That’s why Swing was born.

14. JFC (Java Foundation Classes)
JavaSoft
1997 – JavaOne Confer. in San Francisco

15. JFC (Java Foundation Classes)

16. Swing’s feature:
Pluggable Look-and-Feels
Lightweight Components
Additional Feature

17. Swing is based on MVC Architecture

18. MVC
Model: the state of data for each component
View: how you see the component
Controller: how the component interacts with event

19. MVC in Swing
simplified
model-delegate

20. MVC in Swing
simplified
model-delegate

21. A Container contains components.

22. Two types of containers:
Top-level
General-purpose

23. Dig into container

24. Glass pane

25. Layered pane

26. Content pane

27. Menu pane

28. Let’s imagine see the real things.

29. Lightweight component
referred Swing components

30. JLabel JButton JCheckbox
JRadioButton JTextField JTextArea
JPasswordField

31. Homeworks
Do the workshop in Introduction to Swing follow video demo.
Read Swing components and Dialog Box