In Java's Swing framework, text input components play a fundamental role in user interaction. Whether it's for a simple login form, a text editor, or a search field, Swing provides a variety of ...

In Part 1, you built an empty Swing JFrame. A blank window appeared on your screen with nothing inside it. That window is your foundation, but on its own it is not very useful. To build a real ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...