Swing calendar
In this post I don’t want to backbite about java. Of course a programmer has many default java swing components in the default library, however some important components are missing. One of them is a swing calender. Fortunately it’s not really difficult to create and implement your own.
The foundation for my calender is from the “Swing Hacks” book, which is really helpful to learn things about swing and threads (in combination with swing).
In the example of this book you were not able to change or select the date direct in the ui. The implementation of this add on is very simple and can be developed in a short time.
If you want to try some “Swing Hacks” then you can download these from the Oreilly page. It’s a good point to start if the default components are not good enough or you just want to learn new things.
Book:
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Swing Hacks (Tips & Tools for building killer GUIs) ISBN 0-596-00907-0