Sun's Java UI toolkit, Swing, was a great idea, though of course it's taken a long time to come even close to its original ideals: a powerful, attractive, full-fledged windowing toolkit independent of ...

I'm learning Java by writing a Mandelbrot program. I can draw the image, then use the mouse to choose an area to magnify. Works great, except... When I choose the area to magnify (mouse down, move ...

The best way to teach the concept of Java user input to new software developers is to show them how to use the highly visual and user-friendly JOptionPane class from the Swing package. With one simple ...

If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s ...

I'm currently working on a UI project using Java (1.4.2) Swing. My application is in the form of an MDI. I have a main JFrame which contains a JSrollPane, which contains a JDesktopPane.<BR><BR>I set ...

When evaluating tools and frameworks, it's very important to understand how they support the specific applications that your teams are developing. Using tools that are well designed for the task at ...