Graphical User Interface Programming for Multi-Platform Applications in Java 2.
or
GUI Programming in Java for Everyone
(Version 3)

This is a work in progress and it will be updated as new information arives and time permits. Note that the information here applies Swing. More precisely it is based on the Java Foundation Classes.

The event structure we use here is discussed in the paper: Doing Java Events Correctly by Bergin

• Part 1 Applications
  1. Introduction
  2. Some Java Notes
  3. The Application Frame
  4. The Application GUI
  5. Bibliography
  6. Creating an Application with CodeWarrior
  7. AllenApp notes
  8. More Java Notes
• Part 2 Applets
  1. Introduction
  2. Applet Principles
  3. Examining the Code
  4. Applet Notes
• Part 3 Reusable Parts
  1. Introduction
  2. The ColorDialog class
  3. The ColorSliderDialog class
  4. Presenting Information in your Java Applet or Application
  5. Working With Graphical Figures
  6. Improving our Figure Applet
  7. Printing From a Java Application
• Part 4 Animation and Dobuble Buffering
  1. Introduction
  2. Concepts
  3. Figures
  4. Connections
  5. Animation and Double Buffering
  6. Selection and Dragging

   

For more on how to think about programming to get you to the point of using this stuff see the following two papers by Kent Beck on the Portland Patterns Repository

1. Early Development: http://c2.com/ppr/early.html
2. User Interface: http://c2.com/ppr/ui.html

Last Updated: September 26, 2001