JAVA PROGRAMMING

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Object Oriented Programming

What is GUI
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Stands for Graphical User Interface

Program interface that takes advantage
of the computers graphics capabilities
to make the program easier to use
Designed in 1970 by Xerox Corporations
Palo Alto Research Center

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What is GUI
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Basic Components:

Pointer
Pointing device
Icons
Desktop
Windows
Menu

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Basic GUI Objects

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In Java, GUI-based programs are

implemented by using the classes from
the standard

javax.swing (Swing classes) and

java.awt (AWT classes) packages.

All GUI classes are based on the

fundamental classes in the Application
Windowing Toolkit or AWT.

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A GUI program is composed of three

types of software:
Graphical

components that make up the

Graphical User Interface
Listener methods that receive the events and
respond to them
Application methods that perform the desired
operations on the information

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Abstract Window Toolkit

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Javas platform-independent windowing,

graphics, and user-interface widget
toolkit
Part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
the standard API (Application Program
Interface) for providing graphical user
interfaces for Java programs
Contains the fundamental classes used
for constructing GUIs
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Swing
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Graphical user interface toolkit in Java, which is

one part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
Includes graphical user interface (GUI) widgets
such as text boxes, buttons, split-panes, and
tables runs the same on all platforms
Supports pluggable look and feel not by using
the native platform's facilities, but by roughly
emulating them
Classes are often described as lightweight because
they do not require allocation of native resources
in the operating systems window toolkit
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Swing Components
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UI elements such as dialog boxes and buttons; you

can usually recognize their names because they
begin with J
Each Swing component is a descendant of a
JComponent, which in turn inherits from the
java.awt.Container class
You insert the import statement
import javax.swing.*;
at the beginning of your Java program files so
you can take advantage of the Swing UI
components and their methods
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Using the JFrame Class

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contains the most basic functionalities

that support features found in any frame
window, such as minimizing the window,
moving the window, and resizing the
window
To design such a frame window, we
define a subclass of the JFrame class and
add methods and data members that
implement the needed functionalities.
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Using the JFrame Class

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java.lang.Object
java.awt.Component
java.awt.Container
java.awt.Window
java.awt.Frame
javax.swing.JFrame

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Using the JFrame Class

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isResizable()

setVisible(boolean)

indicate whether the JFrame is resizable Sets a JFrame

to be visible void

using the boolean argument true and invisible using

the boolean argument false

void setBounds(int, int, int, int)

Overrides the default behavior of the JFrame to be

positioned in the upper-left corner of the computer
screens desktop. The first two arguments are the
horizontal and vertical positions of the JFrames upperleft corner on the desktop. The final two arguments set
the width and height.
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Using the JFrame Class

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When a JFrame serves as a Swing applications main user

interface, you usually want the program to exit when the
user clicks Close. To change this behavior, you can call a
JFramessetDefaultCloseOperation() method and
use one of the following four values as an argument:

JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE() - exits the program when the JFrame is

closed.
WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE() - closes the frame,
disposes of the JFrame object, and keeps running the application.
WindowConstants.DO_NOTHING_ON_CLOSE() - keeps the JFrame
and continues running. In other words, it functionally disables the
Close button
WindowConstants.HIDE_ON_CLOSE () - closes the JFrame and
continues running; this is the default operation that you frequently
want to override.

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Using the JPanel Class

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The simplest Swing container plain, borderless

surface that can hold lightweight UI components,
such as JButton, JCheckBoxes, or even other
JPanels
java.lang.Object
java.awt.Component
java.awt.Container
javax.swing.JComponent
javax.swing.JPanel

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To add a component to a JPanel, the

containers add() method is called, using
the component as the argument.
In using a JPanel to hold components, the
setContentPane() method is also
used to allow the JPanel to be set as a
content pane so it can hold components.

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