Examples Index
Lesson: Using Other Swing Features
This section has not yet been updated to reflect features and conventions of the latest release, JDK 6.0.
This lesson contains a collection of how-to pages
to help you use miscellaneous Swing features.
With Action objects,
you can coordinate the state and event handling
of two or more components that generate action events.
For example, you can use a single Action
to create and coordinate a tool-bar button and a menu item
that perform the same function.
With the Swing Timer class,
you can implement a thread
that performs an action after a delay,
and optionally continues to repeat the action.
The action executes in the event-dispatching thread.
Swing components have built-in support for assistive technologies.
Your program can provide even better support
by following a few rules.
Some programs need to manipulate focus — for example,
to validate input, or change the tab-order of components.
This section describes some techniques you can use to
customize focus in your program.
With key bindings,
you can specify how components react to user typing.
This section tells you how to fix problems you might encounter
while trying to use the information in this lesson.