Shows how to create graphical user interfaces with the 1.3 version of the Swing Component Set Offers a clear treatment of the Model-View-Controller architecture Demonstrates the creation and customization of reusable Swing Component extensions Explores the Swing text and html package, and JFC drag-and-drop capabilities Provides in-depth coverage of Jtree and Jtable Completely updated for the 1.3 edition of the Java 2 Platform, the second edition of this widely praised book is the one-stop resource for serious Java developers. This book shows programmers those parts of the Swing Component Set they will use on a daily basis to create graphical user interfaces. You'll learn about the Model-View-Controller architecture that lies behind all Swing components, and you'll discover how to customize the components for specific environments. You'll be provided with custom editors and renderers for use with tables, trees, and list components. You'll also find an overview of the Swing architecture, event handling with the Swing Component Set, core Swing components, toggleable components, Swing menus and toolbars, borders, pop-ups and choosers, and more.

Two hundred illustrations and photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago accompany a definitive overview of Chicago's innovative architectural history, from the development of the late-nineteenth-century Chicago School of commercial architecture to the origins of Wright's Prairie School, to the work of such legendary architects as Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, and others. 10,000 first printing.

A combination of 230 illustrations and fourteen essays offers a look at the structures built to follow humankind's dreams out into the cosmos, our perceptions of the universe, the conquest of space, and the inhabitation of that wilderness before and after the advent of space travel.

Product Description: An in-depth survey of the formative years of Chicago's modern architecture. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A global survey demonstrating the continued importance of the skyscraper, reaching well beyond the bounds of Asia, North America and Europe, to incorporate less familiar sites as far afield as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, as well as Uruguay and Mexico...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an in-depth survey of the formative years of Chicago's modern architecture and design from 1923-1993. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., walk through the Skylab of 1967-73 they experience the vehicles interior space but learn nothing about the industrial design of the spacecraft nor the designers who created it.

Product Description: Meinhard von Gerkan, Volkwin Marg and their partners make up one of the most innovative architectural offices in Germany. This book presents 50 of the group's finest architectural designs.

Product Description: Japanese architecture and design acquired international prominence during the boom of the 1980s. Japanese products were sold in record numbers throughout the world and, together with Japanese architecture, became synonymous with high-quality and aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a survey which examines the development of architecture and design for air travel from 1909. The book documents developments in airport architecture, aircraft construction, and interior design, right through to airline corporate identity...read more

Product Description: Classical Prussian architect. theatrical manipulation of space. All drawings and plans from Schinkel archives. Both sumptuous and scholarly

Product Description: Austrian architecture is often associated only with the great eras of the past. Works of the Baroque period, Beidermeier furniture and products of the Wiener Werkstaetten have always been enormously popular. However, today's Austrian architecture and design scene also attracts considerable attention well beyond its borders...read more

More than three hundred superb photographs--with fifty pages in color--and historical drawings document over 120 imposing villas and grand estates built up and down the Hudson River Valley over the last three hundred years