Swing Hack 3: Overlay Graphics

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Tutorial: Swing Hack 3: Overlay Graphics

Swing layouts I often have trouble figuring out which component on screen matches the one in my code, especially if there are custom widgets or subclasses that look the same as normal ones (like formatted text fields) or that don\'t have easy to see bord

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This is really easy to do in Swing because you can create what\'s known as a glasspane. It\'s an invisible Swing component which sits on top of the rest of a frame\'s contents, intercepting events. It\'s typically used to block input for modal dialogs or progress bars, but you can use it to paint on top of the frame as well. Combined with alpha channel colors we can do nifty tricks.

Joshua, this is a pretty nifty approach. It seems the simple ideas are the most impacting ones. Especially the fact, that you are not breaking and existing structures makes this hack a very cool one. -Norb

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