Step By Step JRuby Swing tutorial

JRuby Swing tutorial

This is JRuby Swing tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of GUI programming in JRuby & Swing. The tutorial is suitable for beginners and intermediate programmers.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Layout management
• Components
• Menus & toolbars
• Dialogs
• Painting
• Nibbles

Swing

Swing library is an official Java GUI toolkit for the Java programming language. It is used to create Graphical user interfaces with Java. Swing is an advanced GUI toolkit. It has a rich set of components. From basic ones like buttons, labels, scrollbars to advanced components like trees and tables. Swing itself is written in Java. Swing is available for other languages too. For example JRuby, Jython, Groovy or Scala.