Is there a standard GUI toggle switch in Java?

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cbednarski picture cbednarski · Feb 5, 2012 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

Is there a standard implementation or library that provides a GUI toggle switch in Swing? I know Swing provides a toggle button, but the UX leaves a bit to be desired. I'm looking for this:

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Also, is there a canonical term for this type of control? The Apple HIG refer to it as a UISwitch. I also tried searching for "toggle switch", but I didn't have much luck. (Plenty of JavaScript results, but nothing native.)

Answer

Andrew Thompson picture Andrew Thompson · Feb 5, 2012

You might mimic it by using two icons to represent on & off, then set those to a JToggleButton.

As an aside, users want to see logical and consistent GUIs that represent the 'path of least surprise', it's developers that think users want a 'beautiful, clever' GUI (and that they can design one). Why on earth would they want such a control over a standard toggle-button?

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