Package javax.swing

Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.

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Description

Interface Summary

Action	The Action interface provides a useful extension to the ActionListener interface in cases where the same functionality may be accessed by several controls.
BoundedRangeModel	Defines the data model used by components like Sliders and ProgressBars.
ButtonModel	State Model for buttons.
CellEditor	This interface defines the methods any general editor should be able to implement.
ComboBoxEditor	The editor component used for JComboBox components.
ComboBoxModel	A data model for a combo box.
DesktopManager	DesktopManager objects are owned by a JDesktopPane object.
Icon	A small fixed size picture, typically used to decorate components.
JComboBox.KeySelectionManager	The interface that defines a KeySelectionManager.
ListCellRenderer	Identifies components that can be used as "rubber stamps" to paint the cells in a JList.
ListModel	This interface defines the methods components like JList use to get the value of each cell in a list and the length of the list.
ListSelectionModel	This interface represents the current state of the selection for any of the components that display a list of values with stable indices.
MenuElement	Any component that can be placed into a menu should implement this interface.
MutableComboBoxModel	A mutable version of ComboBoxModel.
Renderer	Defines the requirements for an object responsible for "rendering" (displaying) a value.
RootPaneContainer	This interface is implemented by components that have a single JRootPane child: JDialog, JFrame, JWindow, JApplet, JInternalFrame.
Scrollable	An interface that provides information to a scrolling container like JScrollPane.
ScrollPaneConstants	Constants used with the JScrollPane component.
SingleSelectionModel	A model that supports at most one indexed selection.
SpinnerModel	A model for a potentially unbounded sequence of object values.
SwingConstants	A collection of constants generally used for positioning and orienting components on the screen.
UIDefaults.ActiveValue	This class enables one to store an entry in the defaults table that's constructed each time it's looked up with one of the getXXX(key) methods.
UIDefaults.LazyValue	This class enables one to store an entry in the defaults table that isn't constructed until the first time it's looked up with one of the getXXX(key) methods.
WindowConstants	Constants used to control the window-closing operation.

Class Summary

AbstractAction	This class provides default implementations for the JFC Action interface.
AbstractButton	Defines common behaviors for buttons and menu items.
AbstractCellEditor
AbstractListModel	The abstract definition for the data model that provides a List with its contents.
AbstractSpinnerModel	This class provides the ChangeListener part of the SpinnerModel interface that should be suitable for most concrete SpinnerModel implementations.
ActionMap	ActionMap provides mappings from Objects (called keys or Action names) to Actions.
BorderFactory	Factory class for vending standard Border objects.
Box	A lightweight container that uses a BoxLayout object as its layout manager.
Box.Filler	An implementation of a lightweight component that participates in layout but has no view.
BoxLayout	A layout manager that allows multiple components to be laid out either vertically or horizontally.
ButtonGroup	This class is used to create a multiple-exclusion scope for a set of buttons.
CellRendererPane	This class is inserted in between cell renderers and the components that use them.
ComponentInputMap	A ComponentInputMap is an InputMap associated with a particular JComponent.
DebugGraphics	Graphics subclass supporting graphics debugging.
DefaultBoundedRangeModel	A generic implementation of BoundedRangeModel.
DefaultButtonModel	The default implementation of a Button component's data model.
DefaultCellEditor	The default editor for table and tree cells.
DefaultComboBoxModel	The default model for combo boxes.
DefaultDesktopManager	This is an implementation of the DesktopManager.
DefaultFocusManager	This class has been obsoleted by the 1.4 focus APIs.
DefaultListCellRenderer	Renders an item in a list.
DefaultListCellRenderer.UIResource	A subclass of DefaultListCellRenderer that implements UIResource.
DefaultListModel	This class loosely implements the java.util.Vector API, in that it implements the 1.1.x version of java.util.Vector, has no collection class support, and notifies the ListDataListeners when changes occur.
DefaultListSelectionModel	Default data model for list selections.
DefaultSingleSelectionModel	A generic implementation of SingleSelectionModel.
FocusManager	This class has been obsoleted by the 1.4 focus APIs.
GrayFilter	An image filter that "disables" an image by turning it into a grayscale image, and brightening the pixels in the image.
ImageIcon	An implementation of the Icon interface that paints Icons from Images.
InputMap	InputMap provides a binding between an input event (currently only KeyStrokes are used) and an Object.
InputVerifier	The purpose of this class is to help clients support smooth focus navigation through GUIs with text fields.
InternalFrameFocusTraversalPolicy	A FocusTraversalPolicy which can optionally provide an algorithm for determining a JInternalFrame's initial Component.
JApplet	An extended version of java.applet.Applet that adds support for the JFC/Swing component architecture.
JButton	An implementation of a "push" button.
JCheckBox	An implementation of a check box -- an item that can be selected or deselected, and which displays its state to the user.
JCheckBoxMenuItem	A menu item that can be selected or deselected.
JColorChooser	JColorChooser provides a pane of controls designed to allow a user to manipulate and select a color.
JComboBox	A component that combines a button or editable field and a drop-down list.
JComponent	The base class for all Swing components except top-level containers.
JDesktopPane	A container used to create a multiple-document interface or a virtual desktop.
JDialog	The main class for creating a dialog window.
JEditorPane	A text component to edit various kinds of content.
JFileChooser	JFileChooser provides a simple mechanism for the user to choose a file.
JFormattedTextField	JFormattedTextField extends JTextField adding support for formatting arbitrary values, as well as retrieving a particular object once the user has edited the text.
JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatter	Instances of AbstractFormatter are used by JFormattedTextField to handle the conversion both from an Object to a String, and back from a String to an Object.
JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatterFactory	Instances of AbstractFormatterFactory are used by JFormattedTextField to obtain instances of AbstractFormatter which in turn are used to format values.
JFrame	An extended version of java.awt.Frame that adds support for the JFC/Swing component architecture.
JInternalFrame	A lightweight object that provides many of the features of a native frame, including dragging, closing, becoming an icon, resizing, title display, and support for a menu bar.
JInternalFrame.JDesktopIcon	This component represents an iconified version of a JInternalFrame.
JLabel	A display area for a short text string or an image, or both.
JLayeredPane	JLayeredPane adds depth to a JFC/Swing container, allowing components to overlap each other when needed.
JList	A component that allows the user to select one or more objects from a list.
JMenu	An implementation of a menu -- a popup window containing JMenuItems that is displayed when the user selects an item on the JMenuBar.
JMenuBar	An implementation of a menu bar.
JMenuItem	An implementation of an item in a menu.
JOptionPane	JOptionPane makes it easy to pop up a standard dialog box that prompts users for a value or informs them of something.
JPanel	JPanel is a generic lightweight container.
JPasswordField	JPasswordField is a lightweight component that allows the editing of a single line of text where the view indicates something was typed, but does not show the original characters.
JPopupMenu	An implementation of a popup menu -- a small window that pops up and displays a series of choices.
JPopupMenu.Separator	A popup menu-specific separator.
JProgressBar	A component that, by default, displays an integer value within a bounded interval.
JRadioButton	An implementation of a radio button -- an item that can be selected or deselected, and which displays its state to the user.
JRadioButtonMenuItem	An implementation of a radio button menu item.
JRootPane	A lightweight container used behind the scenes by JFrame, JDialog, JWindow, JApplet, and JInternalFrame.
JScrollBar	An implementation of a scrollbar.
JScrollPane	Provides a scrollable view of a lightweight component.
JSeparator	JSeparator provides a general purpose component for implementing divider lines - most commonly used as a divider between menu items that breaks them up into logical groupings.
JSlider	A component that lets the user graphically select a value by sliding a knob within a bounded interval.
JSpinner	A single line input field that lets the user select a number or an object value from an ordered sequence.
JSpinner.DateEditor	An editor for a JSpinner whose model is a SpinnerDateModel.
JSpinner.DefaultEditor	A simple base class for more specialized editors that displays a read-only view of the model's current value with a JFormattedTextField.
JSpinner.ListEditor	An editor for a JSpinner whose model is a SpinnerListModel.
JSpinner.NumberEditor	An editor for a JSpinner whose model is a SpinnerNumberModel.
JSplitPane	JSplitPane is used to divide two (and only two) Components.
JTabbedPane	A component that lets the user switch between a group of components by clicking on a tab with a given title and/or icon.
JTable	The JTable is used to display and edit regular two-dimensional tables of cells.
JTextArea	A JTextArea is a multi-line area that displays plain text.
JTextField	JTextField is a lightweight component that allows the editing of a single line of text.
JTextPane	A text component that can be marked up with attributes that are represented graphically.
JToggleButton	An implementation of a two-state button.
JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel	The ToggleButton model
JToolBar	JToolBar provides a component that is useful for displaying commonly used Actions or controls.
JToolBar.Separator	A toolbar-specific separator.
JToolTip	Used to display a "Tip" for a Component.
JTree	A control that displays a set of hierarchical data as an outline.
JTree.DynamicUtilTreeNode	DynamicUtilTreeNode can wrap vectors/hashtables/arrays/strings and create the appropriate children tree nodes as necessary.
JTree.EmptySelectionModel	EmptySelectionModel is a TreeSelectionModel that does not allow anything to be selected.
JViewport	The "viewport" or "porthole" through which you see the underlying information.
JWindow	A JWindow is a container that can be displayed anywhere on the user's desktop.
KeyStroke	A KeyStroke represents a key action on the keyboard, or equivalent input device.
LayoutFocusTraversalPolicy	A SortingFocusTraversalPolicy which sorts Components based on their size, position, and orientation.
LookAndFeel	Completely characterizes a look and feel from the point of view of the pluggable look and feel components.
MenuSelectionManager	A MenuSelectionManager owns the selection in menu hierarchy.
OverlayLayout	A layout manager to arrange components over the top of each other.
Popup	Popups are used to display a Component to the user, typically on top of all the other Components in a particular containment hierarchy.
PopupFactory	PopupFactory, as the name implies, is used to obtain instances of Popups.
ProgressMonitor	A class to monitor the progress of some operation.
ProgressMonitorInputStream	Monitors the progress of reading from some InputStream.
RepaintManager	This class manages repaint requests, allowing the number of repaints to be minimized, for example by collapsing multiple requests into a single repaint for members of a component tree.
ScrollPaneLayout	The layout manager used by JScrollPane.
ScrollPaneLayout.UIResource	The UI resource version of ScrollPaneLayout.
SizeRequirements	For the convenience of layout managers, calculates information about the size and position of components.
SizeSequence	A SizeSequence object efficiently maintains an ordered list of sizes and corresponding positions.
SortingFocusTraversalPolicy	A FocusTraversalPolicy that determines traversal order by sorting the Components of a focus traversal cycle based on a given Comparator.
SpinnerDateModel	A SpinnerModel for sequences of Dates.
SpinnerListModel	A simple implementation of SpinnerModel whose values are defined by an array or a List.
SpinnerNumberModel	A SpinnerModel for sequences of numbers.
Spring	An instance of the Spring class holds three properties that characterize its behavior: the minimum, preferred, and maximum values.
SpringLayout	A SpringLayout lays out the children of its associated container according to a set of constraints.
SpringLayout.Constraints	A Constraints object holds the constraints that govern the way a component's size and position change in a container controlled by a SpringLayout.
SwingUtilities	A collection of utility methods for Swing.
Timer	Fires one or more action events after a specified delay.
ToolTipManager	Manages all the ToolTips in the system.
TransferHandler	This class is used to handle the transfer of a Transferable to and from Swing components.
UIDefaults	A table of defaults for Swing components.
UIDefaults.LazyInputMap	LazyInputMap will create a InputMap in its createValue method.
UIDefaults.ProxyLazyValue	This class provides an implementation of LazyValue which can be used to delay loading of the Class for the instance to be created.
UIManager	This class keeps track of the current look and feel and its defaults.
UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo	Provides a little information about an installed LookAndFeel for the sake of configuring a menu or for initial application set up.
ViewportLayout	The default layout manager for JViewport.

Exception Summary

UnsupportedLookAndFeelException

An exception that indicates the request look & feel management classes are not present on the user's system.

Package javax.swing Description

Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms. For a programmer's guide to using these components, see Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing, a trail in The Java Tutorial. For other resources, see Related Documentation.

Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and other documentation, please see:

• The Swing Connection
• The Java Tutorial
• Online Training at the Java Developer Connection^SM
• Java Foundation Classes (JFC) home page