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Table 17.1 (Continued)

SWT widget Analogous Swing

component

Description

Window that is managed by the OS window
manager. A Shell may be a child of a
Display or another shell.

Shell JPanel

Widget that represents a range of numeric
values. Differs from a Scale by having a
“thumb” to change the value along the range.

Slider JSlider

Composite widget that groups pages that can
be selected by the user using labeled tabs.

TabFolder JTabPane

Any JComponent Selectable user interface object corresponding

to a tab for a page in a tab folder.

TabItem

A selectable widget that displays a list of table
items that can be selected by the user. Rows
are items, columns are attributes of items.

Table JTable

Selectable widget that represents a column in
a table.

TableColumn JTableColumn

or instance of
TableColumnModel

TableCellRenderer or
TableCellEditor

Selectable widget that represents an item in a
table.

TableItem

JTextField ,
JPasswordField ,
JFormattedTextField ,
JTextArea ,
JEditorPane , JTextPane

Editable widget that allows the user to type
text into it.

Text

Composite widget that supports the layout of
selectable toolbar items.

ToolBar

Selectable widget that represents an item in a
toolbar.

ToolItem JButton

A selectable widget that displays a hierarchical
list of user-selectable tree items.

Tree JTree

Selectable user interface object that represents
a hierarchy of items in a tree.

TreeItem MutableTreeNode