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Using Swing Components: Examples

Thetable that follows lists every example in the Using Swing Components lesson, with links to required files and to where each example is discussed. The first column of the table has links to JNLP files that let you run the examples using Java™ Web Start.

To run an example using Java Web Start, click the[Launch] link in the first column of thetable. The first time you run an example, there will be a delay while Java Web Start downloads the JAR file containing the class files for this lesson's examples. Afterward, the examples should execute more quickly.

Compiling and Running the Examples Locally

The second column in the table below has links to zip files for each demo that you can open and run in the NetBeans IDE. Refer toRunning Tutorial Examples in NetBeans IDE for more information.

If you download an individual example, take care to have all the necessary files in the proper hierarchy when you compile and run it. All of the examples in the Swing tutorial are placed in a package. For example, the components examples are placed in acomponents package. See the following image for the complete structure. Note that any examples using images expect their image files to be in a directory namedimages that is in the same directory as the example's src files.

Here is a typical setup:

You can find out which files each example needs by consulting the following table or by looking at the comments at the beginning of each source file.

Table of Examples

* This application is not currently available with Java Web Start. To run it, download and compile it, and then run it as an application.

Geek Images

geek-----.gif,geek-c---.gif,geek--g--.gif,geek---h-.gif,
geek----t.gif,geek-cg--.gif,geek-c-h-.gif,geek-c--t.gif,
geek--gh-.gif,geek--g-t.gif,geek---h-.gif,geek-cg-t.gif,
geek-cgh-.gif,geek-c-ht.gif,geek--ght.gif,geek-cght.gif

Doggy Images

T0.gif,T1.gif,T2.gif,T3.gif,T4.gif,T5.gif,T6.gif,
T7.gif,T8.gif,T9.gif,T10.gif,T11.gif,T12.gif,T13.gif

Tumble Images

T1.gif,T2.gif,T3.gif,T4.gif,T5.gif,
T6.gif,T7.gif,T8.gif,T9.gif,T10.gif,
T11.gif,T12.gif,T13.gif,T14.gif,T15.gif,
T16.gif,T17.gif

Images used in SplitPaneDemo and SplitPaneDemo2

Bird.gif,Cat.gif,Dog.gif,Rabbit.gif,Pig.gif,dukeWaveRed.gif,kathyCosmo.gif,lainesTongue.gif,left.gif,middle.gif,right.gif,stickerface.gif

HTML Files Required for Tree Demos

TreeDemoHelp.html
arnold.html
bloch.html
chanlee.html
jls.html
swingtutorial.html
tutorial.html
tutorialcont.html
vm.html