Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Ricardo Palomares Martine" Subject: Creating a component by p Message-ID: X-Comment-To: comp.lang.java.gui Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 28 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:36:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918572 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:36:12 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:36:12 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:1931 To: comp.lang.java.gui 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 -- If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for? --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24