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Package javax.swing.border

Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.

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Description

Interface Summary

Border

Interface describing an object capable of rendering a border around the edges of a swing component.

Class Summary

AbstractBorder	A class that implements an empty border with no size.
BevelBorder	A class which implements a simple 2 line bevel border.
CompoundBorder	A composite Border class used to compose two Border objects into a single border by nesting an inside Border object within the insets of an outside Border object.
EmptyBorder	A class which provides an empty, transparent border which takes up space but does no drawing.
EtchedBorder	A class which implements a simple etched border which can either be etched-in or etched-out.
LineBorder	A class which implements a line border of arbitrary thickness and of a single color.
MatteBorder	A class which provides a matte-like border of either a solid color or a tiled icon.
SoftBevelBorder	A class which implements a raised or lowered bevel with softened corners.
TitledBorder	A class which implements an arbitrary border with the addition of a String title in a specified position and justification.

Package javax.swing.border Description

Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component. You can subclass these classes to create customized borders for your components instead of using the default borders provided by the look-and-feel being used.

Note: Most of the Swing API is not thread safe. For details, see Threads and Swing, a section in The Java Tutorial.

Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

• How to Use Borders, a section in The Java Tutorial

Since:

1.2