Using Swing Components
This lesson describes every Swing component.
All of these sections assume that you've successfully
compiled and run a program that uses Swing components,
and that you're familiar with Swing concepts.
These prerequisites are covered in
Getting Started with Swing
and
Swing Features and Concepts.
This section has a picture of each Swing component,
from top-level containers to intermediate containers
to atomic components.
To find the section that discusses a particular component,
just click the component's picture.
Almost all Swing components
inherit from the JComponent class.
This section tells you about the features JComponent
provides,
and gives tips on how to take advantage of those features.
Discusses how to create windows and applets.
Discusses how to use intermediate containers
to group or add features to other components.
Discusses the rest of the Swing components,
which are generally the components
that users interact with when using your GUI.
This section discusses solutions to common component-related problems.
