Java Swing (GUI) Programming: From Beginner to Expert

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Desktop Applications

Lecture 1: Introduction: About the Course, Plus Some Useful Resources

Lecture 2: Creating a Basic Swing Application

Lecture 3: Adding Components: Layouts, Buttons and Text Areas

Lecture 4: Responding to Button Clicks

Lecture 5: Custom Components

Lecture 6: Simple Toolbars

Lecture 7: Communication Between Components

Lecture 8: Listeners and Events: Using Interfaces to Cleanly Separate Components

Lecture 9: Setting Component Sizes

Lecture 10: Setting Borders

Lecture 11: Text Fields and Labels

Lecture 12: Laying Out Controls with GridBagLayout

Lecture 13: Custom Events and Form Submission

Lecture 14: List Boxes

Lecture 15: Working With List Box Data

Lecture 16: Combo Boxes

Lecture 17: Checkboxes

Lecture 18: Radio Buttons

Lecture 19: Menus

Lecture 20: Using Checkboxes in Menus

Lecture 21: Mnemonics and Accelerators

Lecture 22: Message Boxes

Lecture 23: Open/Save File Dialogs

Lecture 24: Filtering File Choosers

Lecture 25: Model-View-Controller: Creating a Data Model

Lecture 26: Model-View-Controller: Creating a Controller

Lecture 27: Creating Tables

Lecture 28: Serialization: Saving Objects to Files

Lecture 29: Popup Menus

Lecture 30: Selecting Rows in Tables

Lecture 31: Deleting Rows in Tables

Lecture 32: Dialogs

Lecture 33: Spinners: Specialised Controls for Entering Numbers

Lecture 34: Password Fields

Lecture 35: Saving Program Data: Preferences

Lecture 36: Arranging and Designing Dialogs and Forms

Lecture 37: JDBC: Connecting to a SQL Database

Lecture 38: JDBC: Retrieving Values from Databases

Lecture 39: JDBC: Saving to a Database

Lecture 40: JDBC: Updating Databases

Lecture 41: JDBC: Loading Data from Databases

Lecture 42: Wiring in the Database Code: Bringing It All Together

Lecture 43: Intercepting the Window Closing Event

Lecture 44: Using Images and Icons

Lecture 45: Draggable Toolbars: Using the JToolbar class

Lecture 46: Split Panes: Creating Resizeable Separate Areas

Lecture 47: Tabs: Using Tabbed Panes

Lecture 48: Tree Views Using JTree

Lecture 49: Tree Selection Events

Lecture 50: Associating Data With Tree Nodes

Lecture 51: Tree Node Icons

Lecture 52: Custom Tree Cell Renderers: Using Checkboxes in Trees

Lecture 53: Custom Tree Cell Editors: Editing Tree Nodes Using Checkboxes

Lecture 54: Detecting Tree Node Editor Changes

Lecture 55: A Simulated Message Server

Lecture 56: Multithreading in Swing: The SwingWorker class

Lecture 57: Modal Dialogs

Lecture 58: Progress Bars

Lecture 59: Distributing Your Application: Runnable Jars

Lecture 60: Adding Text to Progress Bars

Lecture 61: Cancelling SwingWorker Threads

Lecture 62: Setting the Cursor

Lecture 63: Multiple Nested Split Panes

Lecture 64: Responding to Tab Selections

Lecture 65: Custom List Renderers

Lecture 66: Responding to List Selections

Lecture 67: Changing the Font Using Logical Fonts

Lecture 68: Loading Font Files

Lecture 69: Configuring the Database Connection

Lecture 70: Editable Tables

Lecture 71: Using Checkboxes in Table Cells

Lecture 72: Custom Table Cell Renderers

Lecture 73: Using Custom Editors in Table Cells

Chapter 2: Applets and Animation

Lecture 1: About Applets and the Following Section

Lecture 2: Applets: Creating a Simple Swing Program that Runs in a Webpage

Lecture 3: Drawing Custom Components

Lecture 4: Drawing Shapes: Exploring the Graphics API

Lecture 5: Deploying Applets

Lecture 6: Timers: Using the Swing Timer Class

Lecture 7: Basic Animation

Lecture 8: Smoothing Your Animations With Double Buffering

Lecture 9: Mouse Listeners

Lecture 10: Hiding the Cursor

Lecture 11: Key Listeners

Lecture 12: Detecting Component Resizing

Lecture 13: Using Visual Designers: The Free Window Builder Pro Plugin

Lecture 14: CardLayout: Switching Between Completely Different Views

Lecture 15: Detecting Collisions Between Shapes

Lecture 16: Turning an Applet into a Desktop App

Chapter 3: Appendix

Lecture 1: Setting the Look and Feel

Lecture 2: Source Code – Complete Projects

Lecture 3: Projects — The Source Code Projects You See in the Tutorials

Lecture 4: "Swing Test" Database