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Creating a component by p

From	"Ricardo Palomares Martine" <ricardo.palomares.martine@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Creating a component by p
Message-ID	<ejmnl4-abc.ln1@Father.family> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Date	2011-04-27 15:36 +0000
Organization	TDS.net

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Hi,

This may be a FAQ and/or a dumb question, but I haven't managed to get
all the information I need by SFTW (and, in particular, the Swing
Tutorial).

There is somewhat usual to have a JTextField for the user to type a
pathname, and a JButton next to it to launch a Choose File Dialog. In
fact, in the app I'm writing is going to be usual that I'd rather
create a custom component to tie both fields together.

But I'm not sure how to do that. I've thought of putting both
components (JTextField and JButton) inside a JPanel, and thus I would
write my custom component by extending a JPanel with two private
properties holding the text field and the button. Would that be
sensible or should I extend JComponent (which I think is more complex)?

TIA

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