Quiz: The Swing Tutorial

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Test your knowledge! This quiz covers some lesser known facts that GUI programmers are likely to need while developing and distributing programs that use Swing components. Choose the best answer for each question, then click Submit to see how you scored.

Note: The text of The Swing Tutorial will soon cover all these topics, but currently some are only used in code samples or mentioned in API tables. For example, the JFrame page has not yet been updated to cover setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated, but its examples and API tables have. You can find the source code for each example both through the pages that discuss the example and from the example index. You can search for particular topics using the Tutorial Search box in the right column of The Java Tutorial's front page.

  public class AnAction extends AbstractAction {
      public AnAction() {
          super(someText);
          putValue(SHORT_DESCRIPTION, otherText);
          putValue(MNEMONIC_KEY, new Integer(KeyEvent.VK_M));
      }
      . . .
  }
  . . .
  JButton b = new JButton();
  JMenuItem mi = new JMenuItem();
  Action anAction = new AnAction();
  b.setAction(anAction);
  mi.setAction(anAction);

  JButton b = new JButton();
  JMenuItem mi = new JMenuItem();
  Action anAction = new AnAction();
  b.setAction(anAction);
  mi.setAction(anAction);
  b.setText("blue");
  anAction.putValue(Action.NAME, "red");