How are Swing components internally created, laid out, repainted, notified of events, ...?

Question

I wonder if there is good documentation (or a (viewable) book) on the life cycle of Swing components .

Is the "life cycle" the right term?

I hope to find answers to the question, for example:

• How, when, in what order are the drawing methods called ?
• How, when, what events are triggered by whom?
• What is the sequence method calls to create components?

From time to time I come across unusual behavior of my applications, for example:

• The ComponentListener resize event is fired before setVisible (true)
  (so the root panel has negative dimensions!)
• Some components are correctly decomposed only after manually resizing the JFrame
• Changing a superclass from JPanel to JLayeredPane calls my class, which should be laid out differently inside another container.
• And many other strange things ...

Answer 1

I had the same question a long time ago.

I can’t believe how difficult it is to find a good resource on this topic on the Internet.

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