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GUI Components: Part 2
...the force of events wakes
slumberous talents.
—Edward Hoagland
You and I would see more
interesting photography if they
would stop worrying, and
instead, apply horse-sense to the
problem of recording the look
and feel of their own era.
—Jessie Tarbox Beals
Objectives
In this chapter you'll:
Create and manipulate
sliders, menus, pop-up
menus and windows.
■
Programatically change the
look-and-feel of a GUI, using
Swing's pluggable look-and-
feel.
■
Create a multiple-document
interface with
JDesktopPane
and
JInternalFrame
.
■
Use additional layout
managers
BoxLayout
and
GridBagLayout
.
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