Mnemonics

http://lilisworking.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/pilot-study-of-mnemonics/ OP is looking for an easy way to implement a certain function, which, unfortunately, is beyond the functionality provided. solution still exists, but requires a little more knowledge about the underlying design of the GUI library than otherwise.

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System Cause of solution breakdown

http://lilisworking.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/pilot-study-of-jbutton-6/ Different OS and Java version could cause various appearance. No tutorial material available to explain. By compile and run SSCCE in threadhttp://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=765112 , we could have different LAF with different OS and Java. Not mentioned in tutorial.

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Component Default Properties

Color Gradient http://lilisworking.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/pilot-study-of-jbutton-button-color/UIManager can be customized so that GUI components can have different UI properties. However, a limitation is that all the components of the same type will all share the same properties, which may not be what is desired. For example, in this particular example, you probably wanted to change the background of a particular button, [...]

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Third Party Classes

LayoutManagers http://lilisworking.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/pilot-study-of-jbutton-layout-2/ There is only limited number of layout managers provided by Swing. To implement different interface, programmers sometimes use third party layout managers. FormLayout mentioned in this thread is one of the most popular Third Party Layout. Tutorial has available link to www.jgoodies.com, which is one of largest third party community. Button Rotation http://lilisworking.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/pilot-study-of-jbutton-rotation JButton rotation is [...]

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