Installing SwingX Components in NetBeans

The SwingX project contains both Swing component extentions and brand new Swing components and APIs. For example, JXTable extends the standard JTable. Also, JXDatePicker is a brand new component for allowing the user to select a date in the UI. Both of these are visual JavaBean components. In SwingX there are also some non-visual JavaBean components such as the GlossPainter, LinearGradientPainter, and PinstripePainter.

All JavaBean components, whether visual or non-visual can be added to the NetBeans palette and used from within the Matisse GUI builder. This tutorial will walk through installing and using these components from within NetBeans.

Downloading SwingX
Managing the Component Palette
Row Highlighting
Row Sorting and Filtering

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