Package net.sf.cuf.ui

This package contains various classes that make Swing coding easier.

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
AutoCompletion	This class helps for auto-completion of a JComboBox.
DispatcherAction	This class offers the Action benefits and also acts as a dispatcher.
FlexibleGridLayout	ToDo: Kommentieren Wichtig: Immer eine Instanz eigene Instanz pro Container!
SwingConnectionManager	The SwingConnectionManager singelton makes the Swing callback handling much more convenient.
SwingDecorator	This classes helps a lot for I18N management, and acts as a decorator for Swing components. Instead of hard-coding a lot of resources (Tooltip, shortcut, name, ..) in Java code, use one or more resource files and SwingDecorator! The keys in a resource file are called I18nID's, and various aspects of a component are addressed with various suffixes (.title, .text, .mnemonic, .accelerator, .tooltip, .iconname). Example: A resource file contains the following lines: myButton.text=Hello myButton.tooltip=just an example myButton.icon=myImage The code to initialize the button would be something like: JButton b= new JButton(); b.setName("button"); SwingDecorator.initilize(b, "myButton");
SwingDecoratorFunctionality	This classes helps a lot for I18N management, and acts as a decorator for Swing components. Instead of hard-coding a lot of resources (Tooltip, shortcut, name, ..) in Java code, use one or more resource files and SwingDecorator! The keys in a resource file are called I18nID's, and various aspects of a component are addressed with various suffixes (.title, .text, .mnemonic, .accelerator, .tooltip, .iconname). Example: A resource file contains the following lines: myButton.text=Hello myButton.tooltip=just an example myButton.icon=myImage The code to initialize the button would be something like: JButton b= new JButton(); b.setName("button"); SwingDecorator.initilize(b, "myButton");
SwingDecoratorFunctionality.MultiResourceBundle	Helper class to support multiple ResourceBundles.
SwingMapping	SwingMapping generates a string mapping for a tree of JComponent's.
TableLayout2	TableLayout2 adds symbolic column and row name support to TableLayout.
TitledSeparator	The TitledSeparator generates a JSeparator with a text (title) at a specified position (pos).

Package net.sf.cuf.ui Description

This package contains various classes that make Swing coding easier.

• The DispatcherAction class adds support for a "selected" (think ButtonModel) property to the normal Action/AbstractAction .
  Furthermore a DispatcherAction object can dispatch ActionEvent's (this is the main reason for the name DispatcherAction).
• The SwingConnectionManager class provides a different (smarter ;-)) call back handling compared with the typical Swing addXYZListener approach.
  The SwingConnectionManager works a little bit like the delegate- Approach of C#/.NET, and dramatically reduces the memory footprint of call back handling (a typical anonymous class takes up to 100 times more memory).
• The SwingDecorator can be used as a decorator of Swing widgets, esp. useful for I18N.
• A SwingMapping can be used as to access widgets by a hierarchical name, and makes get-Methods unnecessary.
• The UserProperties class can be used to load and save user properties.