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The toolbar buttons are floatable.
You can also set a title for the floatable toolbar, as shown in
Figure 38.7(a). To do so, create a toolbar using the
JToolBar(String title) constructor. If you set floatable false,
the floatable controller is not displayed, as shown in Figure
38.7(b). If you set a border (e.g., a line border), as shown in
Figure 38.7(c), the line border is displayed and the floatable
controller is not displayed.
(a) (b) (c)
Figure 38.7
The toolbar buttons can be customized in many forms.
TIP: For the floatable feature to work
properly, do the following: (1) place a toolbar
to one side of the container of BorderLayout
and add no components to the other sides; (2)
don’t set border on a toolbar. Setting a border
would make it non-floatable.
38.5 Processing Actions Using the Action Interface
Often menus and toolbars contain some common actions. For
example, you can save a file by choosing File, Save, or by
clicking the save button in the toolbar. Swing provides the
Action interface, which can be used to create action objects for
processing actions. Using Action objects, common action
processing can be centralized and separated from the other
application code.
The Action interface is a subinterface of ActionListener, as
shown in Figure 38.8. Additionally, it defines several methods
for checking whether the action is enabled, for enabling and
disabling the action, and for retrieving and setting the
associated action value using a key. The key can be any string,
but four keys have predefined meanings:
Key
Action.NAME
Action.SMALL_ICON
Action.SHORT_DESCRIPTION
Action.LONG_DESCRIPTION
Description
A name for the action
A small icon for the action
A tool tip for the action
A description for online help
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