Package com.xmlmind.guiutil

Contains generic utilities and components that are useful for building GUI applications.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AutoCompletion.Choices	Computes the list of all possible choices given the ``prefix'' typed by the user.
AutoCompletion.PossibleChoice	A choice which can be disabled (that is, grayed).
AutoCompletion.RichChoice	A choice which can have a description and a location.
AutoCompletion.SlowChoices	Similar to AutoCompletion.Choices, but the computation of the AutoCompletion.ChoiceList is slow and as such, may invoke a ProgressMonitor.
ChooseFile.FileChooser	This interface must be implemented by the application if it has an advanced file chooser dialog box.
ChooseURL.URLChooser	This interface must be implemented by the application if it has an URL chooser dialog box.
ImagePreview.PreviewFactory
PaneResizedListener	Defines an object which listens for pane size changes in a MultiSplitPane.
PossiblyLengthyTask.MonitoredRunnable	A Runnable which can be monitored.
PreferencesChangeListener	The listener interface for receiving PreferencesChangeEvents.
Ribbon.Frame
ShowStatus.StatusWindow	This interface must be implemented by the application if it has a status bar with a general purpose message field.
TabsListener	Defines an object which listens for Tab changes in a TabbedSplitPane.
ToolPosition	Positions supported by Tool.

Class Summary

Class	Description
Alert	Helper functions for displaying info, warning or error messages.
AsyncImagePreview	Not part of the public, documented, API.
AutoCompletion	Attach an auto-completion facility to an existing JTextField and optionally also to an existing JList.
AutoCompletion.ChoiceList	The list of all possible choices given the ``prefix'' typed by the user.
AutoCompletion.ChoiceRenderer	A kind of ListCellRenderer which is capable of properly rendering AutoCompletion.PossibleChoice.
AutoCompletion.ChoicesBase	A possible base class for the classes implementing AutoCompletion.Choices.
AutoCompletion.MinimalChoices	A simple implementation where the computation of AutoCompletion.ChoiceList depends on the prefix typed by the user in the text field.
AutoCompletion.NoChoices	Dummy implementation of choices which never finds any possible choice whatever the specified prefix.
AutoCompletion.ProgressTextField	Use this kind of text field rather than the stock JTextField if you need to support AutoCompletion.SlowChoices.
AutoCompletion.RichChoiceRenderer	A kind of ListCellRenderer which is capable of properly rendering AutoCompletion.PossibleChoice and/or AutoCompletion.RichChoice.
AutoCompletion.SimpleChoices	A simple implementation where the computation of AutoCompletion.ChoiceList does not depend on the prefix typed by the user in the text field.
AWTUtil	A collection of miscellaneous, low-level, utility functions (static methods).
BrowseButton
ChooseFile	Displays a dialog box allowing the user to specify a file or directory, open or save, File.
ChooseFile.FileChooserImpl	Default implementation of ChooseFile.FileChooser: uses the standard JFileChooser.
ChooseFileOptions	Options of the dialog box displayed by ChooseFile and ChooseURL.
ChooseURL	Displays a dialog box allowing the user to specify a file or directory, open or save, URL.
ChooseURL.URLChooserImpl	Default implementation of ChooseURL.URLChooser: uses the standard JFileChooser.
ClipboardHelper	Convenience methods for accessing the contents of the clipboard.
ColorIcon	An Icon where the customary image is replaced by a colorful rectangle.
DialogBase	A base class for modal or non-modal dialog boxes having OK+Cancel buttons or a Close button, plus an optional Help button.
DialogUtil	A collection of utility functions (static methods) used to help building dialog boxes.
EditText	Helper function displaying a very simple text editor.
EditText.DialogBox
FilterByExtension	An implementation of javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter which filters file by their extensions.
FontChooserDialog
FontChooserPane
HintLabel	A MultiLineJLabel used to display hints (short help lines).
IconResource	A replacement for ImageIcon which takes into account the display scaling.
ImagePreview	Not part of the public, documented, API.
ImagePreview.Cached
ImagePreview.PreviewFactoryImpl
ImageResource	Utility functions sed to load an image from a resource.
ImageTransferable	A Transferable allowing to transfer an image as ImageTransferable.DATA_FLAVORS image data flavors.
InfoBorder	An information field border.
InitLAF	Utility class used to initialize the user interface of an application.
ItemChooserDialog	A dialog box which can be used to select an object (convertible to a String using the standard toString() method) from a list.
ItemSelectorDialog	A dialog box which can be used to select an object (convertible to a String using the standard toString() method) from a list.
ItemSelectorDialog.CompareItemsByString
ItemsSelector	Panel which can be used to select multiple items from a list of objects.
LabeledValue	The association of an Object (the value) and a String (the label).
LabeledValue.CompareByLabel
LinkButton	A JLabel emulating a button looking like an hypertext link.
MenuIcon
MultiLineJLabel	A MultiLineLabel looking (font, color) like a JLabel.
MultiLineLabel	A lightweight Component displaying one or several lines of text.
MultiSplitPane
MultiSplitPane.Constraints
MultiSplitPane.Layout
MultiSplitPane.LayoutInfo
PaneResizedEvent	Event sent by MultiSplitPane to its PaneResizedListeners after a pane is interactively resized or collapsed by the user.
PlaceholderIcon	An Icon where the customary image is replaced by a blank space.
PossiblyLengthyTask	Utility allowing to execute a possibly lengthy task.
PossiblyLengthyTaskMonitor	Not part of the public documented API: the ProgressMonitor used by a PossiblyLengthyTask when the task to be executed can be monitored.
PreferencesChangeEvent	Event sent after user preferences have been modified using a PreferencesEditor.
PreferencesChangeEvent.Change	Specifies modifications made using a given PreferencesSheet.
PreferencesEditor	A panel implementing a Preferences editor.
PreferencesEditorDialog	A modal dialog box containing a PreferencesEditor.
PreferencesSheet	The representation of a preferences sheet (AKA property sheet).
PreferencesSheetPane	Kind of JPanel used to implement a PreferencesSheet.
PromptDialog
RandomColor	Random color generator.
ReorderJList	Utility configuring a JList in order to allow reordering its items using drag and drop and optionnally moving an item from one list to another.
Ribbon
RibbonBorder	A bottom separator border for use by Ribbons.
RibbonFrame
Separator	A plain, vertical or horizontal, separator, optionnally rendered as a line.
SetDateDialog	This dialog box allows to edit the YEAR, MONTH and DAY_OF_MONTH fields of a Calendar.
SetDatePane	This pane allows to edit the YEAR, MONTH and DAY_OF_MONTH fields of a Calendar.
SetDateTimeDialog	This dialog box allows to edit the YEAR, MONTH, DAY_OF_MONTH, HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND fields of a Calendar.
SetDateTimePane	This pane allows to edit the YEAR, MONTH, DAY_OF_MONTH, HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND fields of a Calendar.
SetTimeDialog	This dialog box allows to edit the HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND fields of a Calendar.
SetTimePane	This pane allows to edit the HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND fields of a Calendar.
ShowLog	Helper function for displaying messages logged using a Log.
ShowStatus	Allows to display a message in the status bar of the application.
SplitButton	An iconic JButton split in two parts: the left part, the main one, behaves as a normal JButton and notifies the ActionListeners; the right part, when clicked upon, displays a popup menu.
SplitButton.ComboIcon
Tab
TabbedSplitPane
TabsEvent	Event sent by TabbedSplitPane to its TabsListeners when some Tabs are added removed, moved, etc.
TearOffTab
TextIcon	An Icon where the customary image is replaced by a short, colorful, text.
ThreadMonitorDialog	A dialog box allowing to monitor the execution of a thread.
ThreadMonitorDialog2	Same as ThreadMonitorDialog except that a progress message is displayed using a background color which reflects the type of message (that is, error, warning, etc).
Tool	Abstract base class of non-modal dialog boxes, having a Close button, adjacent to one of the sides of the main window of an application.
URIListDataFlavor	Corresponds to MIME Content-Type "text/uri-list" (RFC 2483)?
URIListTransferable	A Transferable which allows to obtain a list of URIs by using any of the following DataFlavors: URIListDataFlavor, DataFlavor.stringFlavor, DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor (only for a list of "file:" URIs), "text/plain".
Wizard
ZebraCellRenderer	Renders table rows using two alternate colors (generally, white and very light yellow).
ZebraRenderer	Renders list items using two alternate colors (generally, white and very light yellow).

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
AutoCompletion.AppendMode
AutoCompletion.AutoSuggest
MultiSplitPane.Position
Tab.Side
TabbedSplitPane.DnDAction
Wizard.Status

Package com.xmlmind.guiutil Description

Contains generic utilities and components that are useful for building GUI applications.

A number of classes are not documented but should not be useful to third-party developers.