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Table Column Manager
When using a JTable the user has some control over the view of the columns in the table. The columns can be resized and they can be reordered. One feature that is not supported is the ability to hide...
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Drag Layout
We have been taught that you should always use a layout manager to layout components on a container. But what about the times when you want the ability to randomly position components on a panel by...
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Combo Box With Hidden Data
Typically a JComboBox is used to display a list of strings. There may be times when you need the items in the combo box to contain extra data so that you can do additional processing once an item is...
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Smart Scrolling
There may be times when you have a component in a JScrollPane and data is dynamically added to this component. Normally, you would like the viewport to scroll to the bottom automatically as new data is...
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Playing With Shapes
Custom painting, as we all know, should be done by overriding the paintComponent(…) method of a Swing component. Chances are that when you first start to experiment with custom painting you will use...
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Combo Box With Custom Renderer
There may be times when you have a custom Object that you want to add to a JComboBox. Adding the Object to the ComboBoxModel is no problem, however getting the appropriate text to display in the combo...
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Month View
MonthView is a composite of a YearMonthSpinner and a tabular calendar display of the selected month. The table can be navigated with the arrow keys, and the month can be changed by the mouse scroll...
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Temporal Spinners
JSpinner was designed to work with Dates, Lists or Numbers. With the introduction of a new Date/Time API in Java 8, wouldn’t it be great to be able to create date or time spinners that use the new...
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Year Month Spinner
YearMonthSpinner is a composite of two Temporal spinners, one for the month and the other for the year, used to select a java.time.YearMonth. For ease of use, the spinner buttons are located towards...
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Local Date Combo
LocalDateCombo is a Swing date picker for selecting a java.time.LocalDate from a drop-down MonthView. As with MonthView, the no-arg constructor creates a LocalDateCombo set to the current date, with...
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