Chapter 16. Getting in the Swing of Things: Designing a GUI for BudgetPro


Sometimes you gotta have a GUI; even we will admit that command lines only go so far. When it comes to simple interactions with casual users, a Graphical User Interface is a great step forward ... if it's done well. The toolkit for building such an interface with Java is called Swing. The original Java toolkit is AWT (A Windowing Toolkit), and is still in use, but much less attractive. We'll take a quick look at some major pieces of Swing, and show a complete examplea GUI for our budget application. After this example, you will have the tools you need to construct some real GUIs on your own.



    Java Application Development with Linux
    Java Application Development on Linux
    ISBN: 013143697X
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2004
    Pages: 292

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