How do I use a JTree component?

By I Wayan Saryada in Swing 0 Comment

The example introduce you how to use the JTree swing component to create a presentation of hierarchical data. The hierarchical data can be viewed in expand mode or collapse mode.

To create an item of the tree we create an instance of DefaultMutableTreeNode which located in the javax.swing.tree package. This class implements the TreeNode and MutableTreeNode interfaces. Mutable means that the node can be changed. It can be added new children node or deleted children node from their parent node.

Below we create a tree component to display information about week day names and the month names. The Root node have the Days and Months. The Days node contains a week day names and the Months node contains the month names.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import java.awt.*;
import java.text.DateFormatSymbols;

public class JTreeDemo extends JFrame {
    public JTreeDemo() {
        initializeUI();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> new JTreeDemo().setVisible(true));
    }

    private void initializeUI() {
        setSize(500, 500);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));

        // Creating tree node of day names.
        DefaultMutableTreeNode day = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Days");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode sun = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Sunday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode mon = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Monday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode tue = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Tuesday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode wed = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Wednesday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode thu = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Thursday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode fri = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Friday");
        DefaultMutableTreeNode sat = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Saturday");

        // Adding the day nodes into day tree node.
        day.add(sun);
        day.add(mon);
        day.add(tue);
        day.add(wed);
        day.add(thu);
        day.add(fri);
        day.add(sat);

        // Creates tree node of month names using a for loop where the
        // month names is obtained using the DateFormatSymbols class.
        DefaultMutableTreeNode month = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Months");
        String[] months = DateFormatSymbols.getInstance().getMonths();
        for (String monthName : months) {
            DefaultMutableTreeNode node = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(monthName);
            month.add(node);
        }

        // Creating a root node for our JTree and add day and month items
        // to the tree.
        DefaultMutableTreeNode root = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Root");
        root.add(day);
        root.add(month);

        // Creating an instance of JTree using the instance of
        // DefaultMutableTreeNode. We also create a scroll pane for our
        // tree container.
        JTree tree = new JTree(root);
        JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(tree);
        pane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(250, 450));
        getContentPane().add(pane);
    }
}
Swing JTree Demo

Swing JTree Demo

How do I set Swing Timer initial delay?

By I Wayan Saryada in Swing 0 Comment

The Swing javax.swing.Timer object fires the action event after the delay time specified in the constructor passed. For some reasons you might want the Timer class fires immediately after it was started.

To achieve this you can set the timer initial delay by calling the setInitialDelay(int initialDelay) method. The example below give you an example how to do it.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

public class TimerInitialDelayDemo extends JFrame {
    private final JLabel counterLabel = new JLabel();

    private Timer timer = null;

    public TimerInitialDelayDemo() throws HeadlessException {
        initUI();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(
                () -> new TimerInitialDelayDemo().setVisible(true));
    }

    private void initUI() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(500, 500);

        Container container = getContentPane();
        container.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));
        container.add(counterLabel);

        timer = new Timer(1000, new MyActionListener());

        // Set initial delay of the Timer object. Setting initial delay
        // to zero causes the timer fires the event immediately after
        // it is started.
        timer.setInitialDelay(0);
        timer.start();
    }

    class MyActionListener implements ActionListener {
        private int counter = 10;

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            counter = counter - 1;
            String text = "<html><font size='14'>" +
                    counter +
                    "</font></head>";
            counterLabel.setText(text);
            if (counter == 0) {
                timer.stop();
            }
        }
    }
}

How do I use Swing Timer class?

By I Wayan Saryada in Swing 0 Comment

In this example you’ll see how to use java.swing.Timer class to create a text clock program.

package org.kodejava.swing;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class TimerDemo extends JFrame {
    public static final DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm:ss");

    public TimerDemo() throws HeadlessException {
        initUI();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> new TimerDemo().setVisible(true));
    }

    private void initUI() {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(500, 500);

        Container container = getContentPane();
        container.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER));

        final JLabel label = new JLabel();
        container.add(label);

        Timer timer = new Timer(1000, e -> {
            Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
            String timeText =
                    "<html><font size='10' color='blue'>" +
                            df.format(now.getTime()) +
                            "</font></html>";
            label.setText(timeText);
        });
        timer.start();
    }
}