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1. What is the best book or piece of documentation on Java Swing?    stackoverflow.com

I am very likely to be starting a new project at work and will need to use the Java Swing library. I would like to get up to speed pretty quickly, ...

2. Java Swing programming book    stackoverflow.com

I am starting out doing some GUI development in Java, and am looking for a good comprehensive book on Swing. Coming from more of a scientific background, my programs have sometimes ...

3. please recommend a swing book about custom JComponent creation    stackoverflow.com

Please recommend a Swing book that covers creating custom JComponents.

4. Importing Contacts in to an address book GUI from a file using BufferedWriter method    stackoverflow.com

Here you can see ive used the BufferedReader method to impotr contacts from an external file, but i keep getting the repeated errors - not a statement, illegal start of expression ...

5. Good book to start Java Desktop (GUI) development    stackoverflow.com

i am wondering which book is best for starting Java development for a desktop app. I have extensive experience in AS3, PHP and also now OOP from Java (back in the University ...

6. is there a Java GUI for dummies?    stackoverflow.com

first I want to apologize about my english, it may be not clear enough. Well, I'm new to Java programming, and I searched over this web about use of Swing, ...

7. Swing tutorial or book?    stackoverflow.com

Ok, So I have a big problem with Swing: I can't get my head around it. I searched but I found nothing that is really useful. I have an application that runs ...

9. Suggest a good book for Java Swing    stackoverflow.com

Could any one suggest a good book for designing GUI with Java? And, which IDE is the best for Java GUI purposes? Thanks!





10. Flip Book in Java/Swing    stackoverflow.com

You gyus have seen those flash based flip books. I want to create the same in Java. I am using JTextArea for leaf of the book. What I want to know ...

11. latest Book for swing    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
What is the best book or piece of documentation on Java Swing?
I am planning to learn GUI with java. I googled for books, ...

12. What are the best books for creating beautiful GUI applications in JAVA    stackoverflow.com

Hi I want to find a book that would help me create beautiful GUI applications thanks

13. Books    coderanch.com

Know any good books? A while ago, I bought a book called Java Foundation Classes. I've read a lot of it and got bored. Part of the problem is that I knew a lot about AWT event passing. It also uses swing 1.0 and that concerns me. With Java 2 happening, does anyone suggest a an exciting book that covers JFC/Swing ...

14. Book    coderanch.com

15. Books Names Required!!    coderanch.com

And I'll recommend Graphic Java Vol2: Swing, by David Geary. If you take a look at the series of images at the top of your screen, you'll see a large selection of books that specialize in Swing. If you select a given image, you can go to Amazon to look through all the reviews that readers have submitted there. You might ...

16. java books    coderanch.com

Hi, just a reaction on the last reply about Thinking in Java which you can find at www.bruceeckel.com As an experienced programmer I'm sure that most books seem easy. I started learning to program on Java last April after a little experience with Visual Basic and although I started reading Thinking in Java after the book in my first message I ...





17. Books on Swing and JFC    coderanch.com

18. Win a free book! (or whatever)    coderanch.com

Actually, for help leading to the success of my project, I'll give you a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com, a $50 gift certificate to where ever you'd like (great gift idea!), or I'll just send you a check for 50 bucks. I have been struggling for quite a while trying to do something that seems like it should be standard, generic ...

19. Swing book    coderanch.com

The O'reilly book is kind of tough to read, I think. But it's big and very thorough. It's probably the book to get, if you only get one. I've usually needed to supplement it with other sources, though. That sam's book online looks good. Core advanced Swing covers documents (RTF, HTML, etc.) and drag and drop very thoroughly and clearly...

21. Books for SWING    coderanch.com

there are about 6 books mentioned for swing and GUI, and have gone through their reviews... But i would appreciate if someonce could tell me which book to buy. (i want to buy one or another second one to supplement) If someone were to ask me about the books to prepare for scjp test, I would in addition to naming the ...

22. re.books to learn    coderanch.com

23. re.:Helllllllllllp!:books to learn    coderanch.com

24. Book for Swing    coderanch.com

25. Book Giveaway Rescheduled    coderanch.com

26. Just trying to get a book!    coderanch.com

28. books on Swing    coderanch.com

29. Anyone recommend a good swing book    coderanch.com

30. Need advice for buying a SWING book    coderanch.com

31. Good "SWING" Book (s) ???    coderanch.com

32. Java2/Swing Books online    coderanch.com

33. I need an opinion on this book    coderanch.com

34. a good Swing book    coderanch.com

Hello Marijana- I bought a book called "Java Swing" made by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, and Dave Wood that is published by the O'Reilly people. At first it was a little over my head, but after I read through it a little bit and tried out some of the examples, it made a little more sense. This is probably a good ...

35. Looking for a good Swing reference book.    coderanch.com

I have Zukowski's book and I have found it very useful. It has been my main reference to date. It only covers up to 1.2 though. Yesterday I ordered Graphic Java 2, Volume Two, as per Nathan's suggestion. While placing my order I stumbled across Mastering, J2SE 1.4 and ordered that also. Hopefully they will serve as decent reference guides for ...

36. Swing Book    coderanch.com

37. Java Swing book.    coderanch.com

38. Java Swing book    coderanch.com

39. who has new Swing book from Oreilly    coderanch.com

40. seek book recommendation    coderanch.com

41. Good book on Swing    coderanch.com

Hi, As Avi said Core JFC by Kim Topley is inarguably the best book on Swing. I would like to mention few other books :- 1. Core Swing Advanced Programming by Kim topley (If u r desiging text editors or web browsers, this book is a must) 2. Graphic Java 1.2 Mastering JFC Vol 1 (AWT) by David Geary 3. Graphic ...

42. Good Swing book    coderanch.com

43. This week's book giveaway - "Swing"    coderanch.com

I am also wondering what kind of patterns you cover, but I am looking for Action and Command patterns. I have yet to find a book that covers these patterns AND gives good examples of them used in a SWING App. It is discouraging because I am trying to learn these patterns. How much does your book go into that? And ...

46. do a know a good book on SWING?    coderanch.com

47. Looking for a book..    coderanch.com

PS You asked me what my app was (in the other thread), what is yours? If you can say? From your one post in XML it looks to have something to do with gaming... Sure. It's nothing too special, but I am trying to take a different approach to it to make it somewhat unique. I am making a really advanced ...

48. Any Good Books?    coderanch.com

Hi, I started with first volume of Core Java by Cay S Horstmann and then moved to Graphic Java Volume II by David Geary. You may also follow the same sequence. While Core Java is sufficient to write Swing GUI but Graphic Java book teaches you everything from MVC architecture to Pluggable Look and Feel with a detailed study of all ...

49. Swing books?    coderanch.com

50. any good book for swing    coderanch.com

51. Swing Book!    coderanch.com

if you are looking for design, read some design patterns book (very boring, i agree) but try to apply them in your design. Do not overdo this, but in the end you will see that your app is maintainable. To be fair, the book is on swing, not on design. But from experience, the tutorial is very extensive and very good. ...

52. Why buy the book?    coderanch.com

53. The Book and the "Proper Way"    coderanch.com

Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger: ...or does your book cover the "right" way to construct a gui? I know that Swing is designed as MVC but does your book cover creating a GUI using the MVC design pattern? That's exactly the kind of Swing book I'd be interested in as well. The problem with most books I've glanced at is that ...

54. Book Topics Covered    coderanch.com

Hi, I'm also new to Swing (as I saw some other people posted as well). I was wondering how deep the book went with examples and topics that it covered. That is, I've learned about JDBC programming, and was thinking of trying to write an application that would provide a tree structure to show the tables, columns, etc. In addition, I ...

55. does the book cover customizing?    coderanch.com

56. JFC Swing Book    coderanch.com

57. Swing Book    coderanch.com

58. What is the Best AWT/Swing Book ???    coderanch.com

59. Swing book.    coderanch.com

Does anyone know if there is much difference between the first and second editions of Manning's Swing by Matthew Robinson? I have the first edition...been a while since I've done much Swing work and I wondered if it would be worth it to pick up a copy of the second edition or not. Thanks!

60. Best book for Swing?    coderanch.com

61. question for Rob: Does your book cover Rich Client Platform    coderanch.com

The book doesn't specifically cover the Rich Client Platform (RCP). The aim of the book was to focus solely on SWT and JFace for building standalone applications, and to be Eclipse-agnostic. In that vein, it doesn't specifically address Eclipse plug-ins, either. SWT has clearly demarcated boundary lines, so sticking to strict SWT was a simple task. The lines between JFace and ...

62. Reason For The Book    coderanch.com

I was writing an app for personal use that I would be running on both Windows and Linux, so Java seemed the natural choice. I was going to go with Swing, but had heard of Eclipse and SWT, so I checked it out--and really like what I saw. So, I took the plunge and wrote the app in SWT. Along the ...

63. does your book talk about ole integration?    coderanch.com

Our book doesn't address ActiveX control integration, since that is a Windows-only feature. We went back and forth on that a little, but with only so much space (we actually had to whittle back a number of pages), we couldn't justify adding space to something that works on only one platform. The focus of the book is on how to write ...

64. Do we need Ant Knowledge for the book?    coderanch.com

Mr.Rob, Thank you for your warm reply. As for ANT, could you please identify why you chose ANT in the book examples? Is there any specific reason to use ANT with SWT? I heard that ANT is built-in with Eclipse and as for convenience, do you just use ANT to compile the examples in the book? If I am not wrong, ...

65. Can anyone recommend a good Swing book?    coderanch.com

66. Swing book recommendation    coderanch.com

67. book comparison    coderanch.com

68. Swing book by Head first authors    coderanch.com

69. Recommend book on Swing    coderanch.com

70. Advise me a book about Swing    coderanch.com

Could anyone advise me a good book about Swing? Now I look at 3 books: - O'Reilly Java Swing, Second Edition (By Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, David Wood) - Manning Up to Speed with Swing, Second Edition - Manning Swing, Second Edition (MATTHEW ROBINSON, PAVEL VOROBIEV) But I think that first book is the ...

71. Scott: You book and example code    coderanch.com

Hey Scott. I was wondering how much code do you have in your book that relates to the information you are talking about. Is it example driven with code and explination? Is it mainly theory? Could you break it down into a explanation to code ratio? For example, you talk about threading in chapter 5. Since the sample chapter isn't up ...

72. a good book on swing    coderanch.com

73. If I only had a SWING book...    coderanch.com

74. I am NOT a Swing beginner...SWING BOOKS?    coderanch.com

Hi Scott, I gave a look to your book a little while ago because I read something on some forum (I think it wasn't here at javaranch). I would prefer a hard copy, I have seen your book at Amazon.com (when I checked last time was not available yet) but your book is still under development isn't it? I believe in ...

75. Book On Swing    coderanch.com

76. Any other trusted place to get Swing books from    coderanch.com

Is there any other trusted place to get Swing books from other than Amazon? I am asking because i wanted to get other Desktop Java Live from there and they said the seller is lulupress, but when i put my address in they say they can't send it to this destination (Canary Islands off Morroco) . ??

77. Book in Swing    coderanch.com

78. TwoButtons App From "HeadFirst Java" Book    coderanch.com

Well if you can read the text "I'm a label" (or "Ouch") then the frame.getContentPane().add(BorderLayout.WEST, label) line is indeed working. There are two reasons you see no difference in the backgrounds of the JLabel and the drawPanel. The first is that the JLabel defaults to isOpaque()==false, so it doesn't paint its background and the background color of the frame's contentPane shows ...

79. Books for developing SWNG components    coderanch.com

Hello all Can anyone please tell me which book should I refer in order to have confidence in developing independent and robust swing programs. I searched the net and found one book "The JFC Swing Tutorial Second Edition" This is the first time I am using swing so please help in suggesting a good book. Regards Rohit

80. Java Swing book    coderanch.com

82. New book on Advanced Java GUIs out soon!    coderanch.com

Gee guys.. What an awful post I wrote.. I am reading it now and it is just a plain, shameless plug. Sorry for that! (Actually this is typical of me.. spending 4-5 years working on something and then spending only 5 minutes for "PR".. BTW that's also why I moved out of consulting ) Anyway, it feels great to be back ...

83. Swing course/book    coderanch.com

Hi all I have been doing a lot of swing work lately. And my swing skill is still really bad. Today, my boss give me some other task on Swing. So I guess it is time for me upgrade my skill. Do you guy have any advice for me! Who is expert in this field please tell me what book or ...

84. designing a book    coderanch.com

85. Swing book    coderanch.com

87. Swing books-plz help    coderanch.com

88. Recommend Java Swing book please    coderanch.com

I tried The Definitive GUI to Java Swing by John Zukowski and Swing by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev. Both got me nowhere, they are not written very well or organized so a swing beginner could learn from it. I skimmed a few more books and found them lacking as tutorials. Although now that I have a better grasp of swing, ...

89. a good book for Swings in java    coderanch.com

90. suggest a good book for Swings    coderanch.com

91. book preference    coderanch.com

92. Book recommendations for AWT/Swing    coderanch.com

94. recommendation for swing book    coderanch.com

95. suggestion for good swing basics book    coderanch.com

One book I saw recently in my local bookshop was Herbert Schildt's "Swing: A Beginner's Guide", published a couple of months ago. I only thumbed through it briefly, but it looked like it covered the basics well. I couldn't find a review of it online, but it might be worth checking out.

96. Need Good Book On Swing    coderanch.com

97. What is unique about this book?    coderanch.com

Typical Swing and Java 2D books are basically a rewrite of the javadocs. Our book won't tell you that a JButton is a button (even though we will tell you in chapter 3 that drawLine() draws a line ;-). Our book has three primary goals: - Make you want to create very cool user interfaces - Show you how to achieve ...

99. Good book for Swings?    coderanch.com

Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger: In all honesty I haven't read a Swing book that deals with any more than Sun's own Swing tutorial. Sun's tutorial is pretty good, but (the matter of which books you have and haven't read aside) I would have to disagree that there aren't books that go in to more depth. For instance, I think my ...