Working with Swing in the visual editor

The visual editor for Java gives you visual control in working with Swing components. You can also customize the Swing look and feel.

Several Swing components have special behavior in the visual editor that is worth noting. See the following topics for more information about working with Swing and Swing components:

Changing the Swing look and feel
Swing provides the capability of changing the look and feel for your components. You can change the default Swing look and feel in the visual editor preferences.

Adding a new Swing look and feel
With the visual editor for Java, you can use a look and feel other than those provided by Swing.

JTable and its columns
You can use the visual editor to arrange data in rows and columns using JTable.

JSplitPane and its components
The visual editor has special behavior to make it easy to work with a Swing JSplitPane container.

JTabbedPane and its pages
The visual editor makes it easy to work with JTabbedPane in the Design view.

 

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Developing Java classes with the visual editor