net.sf.jomic.tools
Class UiTools

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.jomic.tools.UiTools

public final class UiTools
extends java.lang.Object

User interface tools.

Author:

Thomas Aglassinger

Field Summary

static int

FRAME_INSET Inset to use at the border of a JFrame or JDialog.

Method Summary

void	addKeyStrokeAction(javax.swing.JComponent component, java.lang.String keyStrokeName, javax.swing.Action action)
void	attemptToRemoveActionListener(javax.swing.AbstractButton button, java.awt.event.ActionListener listener) Provided that button is not null, remove listener from it.
void	attemptToRemoveDocumentListener(javax.swing.JTextField field, javax.swing.event.DocumentListener listener) Provided that field is not null, remove listener from its Document .
void	centerUp(java.awt.Component frame) Center frame in upper half of the screen.
javax.swing.JPanel	createDialogMainPanel()
java.awt.Component	createRigidAreaBetweenButtons() Create ridig area to put "some" space between two buttons in a BoxLayout.
void	fillMnemonics(javax.swing.JMenu menu) Set mnemonics in menu depending on the labels of the MenuItems.
void	fillMnemonics(javax.swing.JMenuBar bar) Set mnemonics in bar depending on the labels of the Menus and MenuItems.
java.awt.Cursor	getInvisibleCursor() Get an invisible Cursor.
java.lang.String	getKeyText(int keyCode) Get (English) text for keyboard code.
void	initColumnWidths(javax.swing.JTable table) This method picks good column sizes.
static UiTools	instance()
java.lang.String	keyStrokeToString(javax.swing.KeyStroke keyStroke) Get a string that is parseably by KeyStroke.getKeyStroke().
void	removeKeyStroke(javax.swing.JComponent component, javax.swing.KeyStroke[] keyStrokes) Remove for a JComponent all keyStrokes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

FRAME_INSET

public static final int FRAME_INSET

Inset to use at the border of a JFrame or JDialog.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getInvisibleCursor

public java.awt.Cursor getInvisibleCursor()

Get an invisible Cursor. (Based on code by R?al Gagnon, see http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0440.html for details.

getKeyText

public java.lang.String getKeyText(int keyCode)

Get (English) text for keyboard code.

instance

public static UiTools instance()

addKeyStrokeAction

public void addKeyStrokeAction(javax.swing.JComponent component,
                               java.lang.String keyStrokeName,
                               javax.swing.Action action)

attemptToRemoveActionListener

public void attemptToRemoveActionListener(javax.swing.AbstractButton button,
                                          java.awt.event.ActionListener listener)

Provided that button is not null, remove listener from it.

attemptToRemoveDocumentListener

public void attemptToRemoveDocumentListener(javax.swing.JTextField field,
                                            javax.swing.event.DocumentListener listener)

Provided that field is not null, remove listener from its Document .

centerUp

public void centerUp(java.awt.Component frame)

Center frame in upper half of the screen.

createDialogMainPanel

public javax.swing.JPanel createDialogMainPanel()

createRigidAreaBetweenButtons

public java.awt.Component createRigidAreaBetweenButtons()

Create ridig area to put "some" space between two buttons in a BoxLayout.

See Also:

Box.createRigidArea(java.awt.Dimension)

fillMnemonics

public void fillMnemonics(javax.swing.JMenu menu)

Set mnemonics in menu depending on the labels of the MenuItems.

fillMnemonics

public void fillMnemonics(javax.swing.JMenuBar bar)

Set mnemonics in bar depending on the labels of the Menus and MenuItems.

initColumnWidths

public void initColumnWidths(javax.swing.JTable table)

This method picks good column sizes. If all column heads are wider than the column's cells' contents, then you can just use column.sizeWidthToFit().

keyStrokeToString

public java.lang.String keyStrokeToString(javax.swing.KeyStroke keyStroke)

Get a string that is parseably by KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(). (KeyStroke.toString() does not return such a string.)

However, there is one keystroke that cannot be represented as a string that can be parsed back to a keystroke - a typed space character. In order to bind an action to a typed space character, KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(new Character(' '), 0) needs to be called.

Source: The Java Developers Almanac 1.4 .

See Also:

KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(java.lang.String)

removeKeyStroke

public void removeKeyStroke(javax.swing.JComponent component,
                            javax.swing.KeyStroke[] keyStrokes)

Remove for a JComponent all keyStrokes. Based on a suggestion in a thread in Sun's developer forum.