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Even in well-designed software, complex or unfamiliar tasks can be difficult. You can make performing difficult tasks easier and quicker for users by providing a kind of user interface known as a wizard.
A wizard is a window that leads a user through a task one step at a time--requesting a series of responses from the user and then performing the task based on those responses. Except for a user's responses, a wizard provides all the information needed to perform the task. Typically, wizards are intended to simplify a task so that inexperienced users can perform it easily, or to expedite a complex task by grouping its steps in a single place. Often, wizards both simplify a task and expedite it.
This chapter introduces wizards and then describes:
Wizards have much in common with other types of windows. For general information on windows, see Chapter 2. For general information on layout, visual alignment, and text in the user interface, see Chapter 4 of Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines, 2d ed.
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