Self Testing Controls (ibm.swidgets directory)

by Carmine Greco, Richard Redpath -IBM Software Solutions Division

Date: 8/2/96, Version: Draft 1.0

Background

The purpose of the Self Testing Controls (ibm.swidgets directory) package is to provide a set of Java GUI components that extend Sun's AWT package. The source code is provided as a reference and starting point for customizing these classes for your specific needs.

A control is defined to be self testing if it can provide a demonstration of itself. Each self testing control can be started from the java command line to present a demo of itself without writing code to incorporate it your program or test program to review the intrinsic charactersictics. For example the ScrollingText class can be started from the command line to present a demonstration.

        
        java  ibm.swidgets.ScrollingText