Jigloo Swing Tutorial
In this simple tutorial you will create a small application with an "About" dialog, a menu bar, and
the code to open and close the dialog. You will use the swing's GroupLayout to arrange the
elements on both JFrame and JDialog, and swing Actions to control the JDialog.
Topics covered:
Arranging elements using GroupLayout - anchoring and expanding by positioning or
resizing or by using the drop-down menu
Adding Actions to menu items and buttons - and associating accelerators and mnemonics
with actions
Navigating between visual elements in the tree outline and their code
Adding multiple elements of the same type to a form
Multi-selecting elements
"Surround by" action - useful for times when you realise you really need your table to be
in a scroll pane, etc
Designing multple "root" visual elements in the same form - in this case a JFrame and a
JDialog
Changing which properties appear under the "Basic" and "Expert" headings in the "GUI
Properties" editor.
First you will need a Java project and (preferably) a package to hold your classes.
If you don't know how to do this then hitting Ctrl+N is a quick way to bring up the "Create"
dialog from which you can perform both these steps.
Creating the main JFrame
Create new JFrame
...again, Ctrl+N will show the "create" dialog, from which you should select "GUI forms->Swing-
>JFrame"
