A Visual Index to Swing Components

A Visual Index to Swing Components

Top-level containers are the components at the top of any Swing containment hierarchy. They're shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Top-level containers.

General-purpose containers, shown in Figure 2, are intermediate containers that can be used under many different circumstances.

Figure 2. General-purpose containers.

Special containers, shown in Figure 3, are intermediate containers that play specific roles in the UI.

Figure 3. Special-purpose containers.

Basic controls, shown in Figure 4, are atomic components that exist primarily to get input from the user ; they generally also show simple state.

Figure 4. Basic controls.

Uneditable information displays, shown in Figure 5, are atomic components that exist solely to give the user information.

Figure 5. Uneditable information displays.

Editable displays of formatted information, shown in Figure 6, are atomic components that display highly formatted information that (if you choose) can be edited by the user.

Figure 6. Editable displays of formatted information.