Introduction
Getting Started with JBuilder introduces you to JBuilder's integrated development environment (IDE). It explains how to use JBuilder's IDE to manage projects and files, visually design a user interface, create a JavaBean, and compile, debug, and run your programs.
Getting Started with JBuilder contains the following chapters:
- The JBuilder environment
Introduces the Main window and its menus, the various modes and features of the AppBrowser window, and the wizards to help you automatically generate code.
- Creating and managing projects
Explains how to create and manage projects and files in JBuilder and how to use the AppBrowser to perform management tasks.
- Compiling and debugging Java programs
Presents an overview of the compile and debug process. Explains the Make and Rebuild commands. Describes how to use JBuilder's integrated Debugger to find and fix errors in your program.
- Designing a user interface
Explains how to design a user interface using JBuilder's visual design tools. Also explains how to attach code to a component's event handlers, and gives specific examples of how to hook up common events to UI elements, such as menus and tool bar buttons.
- Designing menus
Explains how to create menus using JBuilder's Menu Designer.
- Working with events
Describes how to add and delete event handlers for components using the Inspector. Gives specific examples of how to code commonly used event handlers for the JBuilder dialog components.
- Error and warning messages
Describes the kinds of errors and warnings that can occur when compiling, debugging, or running JBuilder applets and applications.
- Keymapping definitions
Tells you how to customize the JBuilder editing environment to emulate your favorite editor.
- JBuilder menus
Describes the menus in JBuilder, including pulldown menus on the Main window and popup menus within other windows and panes.
- Glossary of JBuilder and Java terms
Defines terms used in JBuilder and Java.
- Tutorial: Building your first application with JBuilder
Steps you through building a simple application or applet that displays "Hello World."
- Tutorial: Enhancing your first application
Expands the previous tutorial and teaches you how to display "Hello World" in a customized user interface.
- Tutorial: Building a simple text editor
Steps you through building a working Java application from start to finish. This tutorial shows you how to use the visual design tools, together with the source code editor, to build a simple text editor that is capable of reading, editing, and writing simple text files. The sample program is able to set the text font and color, as well as the background color of the text editing region. This tutorial demonstrates how to code many of the common event handlers for using menus and dialogs.