Swing utility tasks
A utility class which collects common tasks can greatly reduce code
duplication. This is especially true for Swing, where many elements of
GUI construction are repetitive.
Example
The UiUtil
class has a number of static methods for:
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centering windows on the screen, or with respect to a parent window
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equalizing sizes of components
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imposing an alignment on all items in a
Box
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creating borders of a standard size
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creating dialog titles of a standard format
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retrieving images
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creating pairs of components, both for user input (
JLabel and
JTextField)
and simple display (two JLabel objects)
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using
GridBagConstraints in a concise manner
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formatting numbers, times, and percents
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