Java Foundation Classes Programmers Primer

By Fintan Culwin
March 2000
Macmillan UK
ISBN: 033377339X
528 pages
$89.50 paper original

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Java Foundation Classes Programmers Primer introduces the student to the major widgets and protocols of the JFC, imparting a sufficient understanding so that more advanced facilities can be approached. Ideally suited for a second course in Java, it will enable students to build on some familiarity with the use of Object Oriented Design and Development in Java to successfully engineer interfaces.

Contents:
Preface
An Initial Artifact - Introducing Event Handling
A Second Artifact - Consolidating Fundamentals
Some Fundamental JFC Attributes
Specialized Components - the Numeric Input Hierarchy
More Specialized Components - the Cards Package
Main Menus and Drag and Drop
Usability Engineering
An HTML Viewer and Editor - Introducing JtextAreas
Internal Frames, Loading, Saving and Printing
Extending JFC Components as JavaBeans
The ColaMachine : Introducing Internationalization
Trees and Tables
Appendix

Author Biography:
FINTAN CULWIN is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at South Bank University. He has authored five previous computer science texts.

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