Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT / JFace

by Jackwind Li Guojie

Overview

Professional Java Native Interfaces takes a solutions-based approach in showing how SWT/JFace works, discussing each common component, providing useful, practical ideas, tips and techniques to make the Java developers' work easier. The author provides relevant and timely examples, both stand-alone applications and smaller code snippets that readers can incorporate into their own code.

To provide a truly real-world quality, the author builds an email/ftp client sample application to show readers how to combine everything into a presentable Java native UI application.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470094594
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/19/2004
Series:	Programmer to Programmer
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jack Li Guojie is an independent Java developer who has been building various types of Java applications since 1998. His areas of interest and experience include artificial intelligence, user interfacing, Web applications, and enterprise system architecture. He has contributed articles to many leading software journals.

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Table of Contents

About the Author.

Introduction.

Part I: Fundamentals.

Chapter 1: Overview of Java UI Toolkits and SWT/Jface.

Chapter 2: SWT/JFace Mechanisms.

Chapter 3: Jump Start with SWT/Jface.

Chapter 4: SWT Event Handling, Threading, and Displays.

Chapter 5: Basic SWT Widgets.

Chapter 6: Layouts.

Part II: Design Basics.

Chapter 7: Combos and Lists.

Chapter 8: Text Controls.

Chapter 9: Menus, Toolbars, Cool Bars, and Actions.

Chapter 10: Tables.

Chapter 11: Trees.

Chapter 12: Dialogs.

Part III: Dynamic Controls.

Chapter 13: Scales, Sliders, and Progress Bars.

Chapter 14: Other Important SWT Components.

Chapter 15: SWT Graphics and Image Handling.

Chapter 16: Drag and Drop and the Clipboard.

Chapter 17: Printing.

Chapter 18: JFace Windows and Dialogs.

Part IV: Application Development.

Chapter 19: JFace Wizards.

Chapter 20: Creating a Text Editor with JFace Text.

Chapter 21: Eclipse Forms.

Chapter 22: Programming OLE in Windows.

Chapter 23: Drawing Diagrams with Draw2D.

Chapter 24: Sample Application.

Index.