Java Swing (GUI) Programming: From Beginner to Expert

• Introduction: About the Course, Plus Some Useful Resources

• Creating a Basic Swing Application

• Adding Components: Layouts, Buttons and Text Areas

• Responding to Button Clicks

• Custom Components

• Simple Toolbars

• Communication Between Components

• Listeners and Events: Using Interfaces to Cleanly Separate Components

• Setting Component Sizes

• Setting Borders

• Text Fields and Labels

• Laying Out Controls with GridBagLayout

• Custom Events and Form Submission

• List Boxes

• Working With List Box Data

• Combo Boxes

• Checkboxes

• Radio Buttons

• Menus

• Using Checkboxes in Menus

• Mnemonics and Accelerators

• Message Boxes

• Open/Save File Dialogs

• Filtering File Choosers

• Model-View-Controller: Creating a Data Model

• Model-View-Controller: Creating a Controller

• Creating Tables

• Serialization: Saving Objects to Files

• Popup Menus

• Selecting Rows in Tables

• Deleting Rows in Tables

• Dialogs

• Spinners: Specialised Controls for Entering Numbers

• Password Fields

• Saving Program Data: Preferences

• Arranging and Designing Dialogs and Forms

• JDBC: Connecting to a SQL Database

• JDBC: Retrieving Values from Databases

• JDBC: Saving to a Database

• JDBC: Updating Databases

• JDBC: Loading Data from Databases

• Wiring in the Database Code: Bringing It All Together

• Intercepting the Window Closing Event

• Using Images and Icons

• Draggable Toolbars: Using the JToolbar class

• Split Panes: Creating Resizeable Separate Areas

• Tabs: Using Tabbed Panes

• Tree Views Using JTree

• Tree Selection Events

• Associating Data With Tree Nodes

• Tree Node Icons

• Custom Tree Cell Renderers: Using Checkboxes in Trees

• Custom Tree Cell Editors: Editing Tree Nodes Using Checkboxes

• Detecting Tree Node Editor Changes

• A Simulated Message Server

• Multithreading in Swing: The SwingWorker class

• Modal Dialogs

• Progress Bars

• Distributing Your Application: Runnable Jars

• Adding Text to Progress Bars

• Cancelling SwingWorker Threads

• Setting the Cursor

• Multiple Nested Split Panes

• Responding to Tab Selections

• Custom List Renderers

• Responding to List Selections

• Changing the Font Using Logical Fonts

• Loading Font Files

• Configuring the Database Connection

• Editable Tables

• Using Checkboxes in Table Cells

• Custom Table Cell Renderers

• Using Custom Editors in Table Cells

• About Applets and the Following Section

• Applets: Creating a Simple Swing Program that Runs in a Webpage

• Drawing Custom Components

• Drawing Shapes: Exploring the Graphics API

• Deploying Applets

• Timers: Using the Swing Timer Class

• Basic Animation

• Smoothing Your Animations With Double Buffering

• Mouse Listeners

• Hiding the Cursor

• Key Listeners

• Detecting Component Resizing

• Using Visual Designers: The Free Window Builder Pro Plugin

• CardLayout: Switching Between Completely Different Views

• Detecting Collisions Between Shapes

• Turning an Applet into a Desktop App

• Setting the Look and Feel

• Source Code - Complete Projects

• Projects -- The Source Code Projects You See in the Tutorials

• "Swing Test" Database