Detour: Creating UI Components in Java
Prior to creating a custom tab plugin, let's first go over a few UI components in Java, including Container, Panel, Window, and Frame
We'll cover the following...
Java AWT
Java AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) is an API to develop GUI or window-based applications in Java.
Java AWT components are platform-dependent, meaning components are displayed according to the view of the operating system. AWT is heavyweight, in that its components use the resources of the operating system.
The java.awt package provides classes for AWT API such as ...