Lecture_Series

CO-4

JAVA SWINGS
-NIRANJAN A
GUI- Graphical User Interface
Frame

Containers Main
Applet
Container

JFrame

Sub
Panel
Container

Canvas

Components Button TextField Label

CheckBox List
Java Packages for GUI creation
java.awt.*;
javax.swing.*;
java.applet.*;- Not Covered

Java Package for Event Handling

java.awt.event.*;
Classes used for Container Creation
java.awt.Frame;
Javax.swing.JFrame;
java.applet.Applet;
How are Containers Created?
Frame f=new Frame();
Or
Frame f=new Frame(“Title”);
JFrame jf= new JFrame();
Or
JFrame jf=new JFrame(“Title”);
How are Components Created?
Button b=new Button();
Or
Button b=new Button(“Text”);
Label l= new Label();
Or
Label l=new Label(“Text”);
TextField tf=new TextField();
Or
TextField tf=new TextField(size);
JButton b=new JButton();
Or
JButton b=new JButton(“Text”);
JLabel l= new JLabel();
Or
JLabel l=new JLabel(“Text”);
JTextField tf=new JTextField();
Or
JTextField tf=new JTextField(size);
 How are sizes fixed for
Containers/Components?
Obj of
Cont/Comp . setSize(width,height);
Frame f=new Frame();
Button b=new Button();
Label l= new Label();
TextField tf=new TextField();
f.setSize(700,800);
b.setSize(30,40);
l.setSize(50,30);
Obj of
Cont/Comp . setBounds(x,y,width,height);
JFrame jf=newJFrame();
JButton b=new JButton();
JLabel l= new JLabel();
JTextField tf=new JTextField();
jf.setBounds(20,30,700,800);
b.setBounds(20,70,30,40);
l.setBounds(20,130,50,30);
 How are Components added onto a
Container?
Obj of Obj of
Container . add(Object of Component); Cont/Comp . setBounds(x,y,width,height);

Frame f=new Frame(); JFrame jf=newJFrame();

Button b=new Button(); JButton b=new JButton();
Label l= new Label(); JLabel l= new JLabel();
TextField tf=new TextField(); JTextField tf=new JTextField();
f.add(b); jf. add(b);
f.add(l); jf. add(l);
f.add(tf); jf. add(tf);
 Event Handling
1. An event is generated by a source.
2. One who listens to an event is called the listeners.
3. The listener will continuously be waiting for an event to occur and once an
event is generated the listener Notifies to take appropriate action:
4. In Java all the listeners are available as interfaces. To write such programs
we need to follow few steps
1. import statement should be written in the following way import java.awt.event.*;
2. The class must implement an appropriate listener interface.
3. The event must be registered with the listener interface for which an appropriate
type of add() method should be used.
4. Finally, we need to override the methods which are declared abstract in the
interfaces.
 Sample Outputs
AWT SWING