Objects as Classes

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The Software to be designed

What have we got

Frame Panel Tank Alien But also

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Objects

Need to Identify Then decide classes

What attributes What methods Hierarchy? Dependencies

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Objects

The Frame!
What has it got? Title Close, minimize, maximize

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Objects

The Panel
This is where things are drawn It has a way to draw itself That includes its background image It goes in the frame

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Objects

These two things

The Frame a JFrame The Panel a JPanel Imported package!
import javax.swing.*;

Come from

The compiler will not include anything you dont use

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Diagram

We can diagram a class First we have a box with the name Let us start with the Frame

SpaceFrame

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JFrame

Our frame will be a special form of a JFrame

This is in the javax swing package
import javax.swing.*;

JFrame

We can show that the JFrame is the general form

SpaceFrame

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Panel

In the same way the Panel inherits from the JPanel

JPanel

AlienLandingPanel

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The Panel is an attribute of the Frame

It is our drawing canvas It is added to the JFrame We use the add(object) method of the JFrame class We divide our class model with two lines SpaceFrame One section will hold the attributes alienLandingPanel The other the methods
add(Object)

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Inheritance

The SpaceFrame will inherit from the JFrame Creating a new more special version of JFrame We can override JFrame methods Or use them direct
For example the JFrame constructor has a form with a title This can be called from the SpaceFrame constructor
super(name);

Alternatively the parent setName method can be called

super.setName(name);

In both these cases name is a string that you have assigned the actual name to. Might be an SpaceFrame constructor parameter
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Model Parameter
SpaceFrame

SpaceFrame(name:String)

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The relationship

The AlienLandingPanel is not inherited from the SpaceFrame But they are related One AlienLandingPanel will be added to the SpaceFrame
SpaceFrame AlienLandingPanel

Contains

Is In

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Multiplicity

This is a one to one relationship

SpaceFrame AlienLandingPanel

Contains

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