GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

(GUI)

Chapter 11:

Contents

Simple GUI I/O

Customizing Frame Windows

Layout Manager

Text Related and Other GUI Components

Event Handler

Learning Goals

Define a subclass of JFrame to implement a customized frame window.

Write event-driven programs using Java's delegation-based event model

Arrange GUI objects on a window using layout managers and nested panels

Write GUI application programs using JButton, JLabel, ImageIcon, JTextField, JTextArea, JCheckBox, JRadioButton, JComboBox, JList, and JSlider objects from the javax.swingpackage

Write GUI application programs with menus

Differentiate the use of event handling for each component.

Apply appropriate event handling based on given problem.

Transform program from java application to java applet and vice versa.