Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> He also mentions an O'Reilly book on Swing which predates the final Swing
> release but has a bit more information then the Javadoc. Does anybody know
> if that is a good book to start (in combination with the Javadoc) on
> implementing the Swing classes?
The Swing book he talks about is also the one which I consider to be
the most in-depth out there. At the moment, creating a completely
working 1.1+ AWT and other core classes seems more pressing than
starting Swing. I've had the accessibility interfaces partially done
for a while, but haven't checked them in yet mostly for this reason
but also because I need to finish documenting them.
I personally see two methods to attack Swing (given Sun has not
released a Javadoc+ book on it as they have previous core classes and
the Javadoc lacks basic information). One is to just hit everything
obvious and implement it. You can probably even test it out by
putting it in front of other Swing classes in your CLASSPATH. Two is
to implement a set of programs which get at the information Sun has
not documented very well and you can't find elsewhere (O'Reilly book).
An interesting thing I started was working on a pure Java (currently)
Look and Feel for GTK which I wanted to use in order to get at the
details of the Basic Look and Feel. Implementation of a look and feel
is somewhat time consuming in order to perfect each *UI, and hey maybe
that's overkill.
I think the target for Swing should be whatever the last version to
work with 1.1 was, I think Swing 1.1.1 should you decide to go that
way anyway.
Brian
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Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
