The javax.

swing package contains

several classes used for creating Menus
 JMenuBar, JMenu, JMenuItem (and variants):
 JRadioButtonMenuItem
 JCheckboxMenuItem

 Only the JMenuItem objects (and variants)

generate events.

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 JMenuItems generate
Action Events
Some Events and Their Associated Event Listeners
Act that Results in the Event Event Listener Type
Action: User clicks a button, presses Enter while
ActionListener
typing in a text field, or chooses a menu item
User closes a frame (main window) WindowListener
User presses a mouse button while the cursor is
MouseListener
over a component
User moves the mouse over a component MouseMotionListener
Component becomes visible ComponentListener
Component gets the keyboard focus FocusListener
Table or list selection changes ListSelectionListener
Any property in a component changes such as
PropertyChangeListener
the text on a label
 JMenuBar
 JMenuBar is a bar where the menus are
placed.
There is only one menu bar per frame.

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JMenuBar
 JMenu
 JMenu (such as File or Edit) is a group of
menu choices.
A JMenuBar object may include many JMenu
objects.

JMenu
 JMenuItem
 JMenuItem (such as Copy, Cut, or Paste) is an
individual menu choice in a JMenu object.
 Action command defaults to text of menu item
Override with call to setActionCommand()
Useful when providing UI in multiple languages

JMenuItem

JSeparator
Demo on Menus
 Sequence for Creating Menus
1. Create a JMenuBar object and add it to a
frame via setJMenuBar()
2. Create a JMenu object.
3. Create JMenuItem objects and add them
to the JMenu object.
4. Add the JMenu object to the JMenuBar
object.
Radio buttons & Check boxes
 Along with JButton, Radio buttons and
Check boxes are all specific kinds of
buttons – they all derive from the
AbstractButton class
This is called inheritance – coming soon
 This implies similar behavior for these
classes
 Check boxes
 Implemented by JCheckBox
 A GUI usually permits more
than one Check box to be
selected at one time
 Radio Buttons
 Implemented by
JRadioButton
 A GUI usually prevents
more than one Radio
button to be selected at
once
 Typically used along with a
ButtonGroup object
 ButtonGroup takes care of
deselecting the previous
Radio button when a new
one is selected
 Mouse Events
 Mouse events arise from such
user interactions as
 moving the mouse
 dragging the mouse (moving the
mouse while the mouse button is
being pressed)
 clicking the mouse buttons.
 Who listens for Mouse Events?
 JFrame
 ContentPane
 … or whoever is interested in getting
events
 Handling Mouse Events
 A MouseListener handles most mouse events:
 mouseEntered – cursor crossed into the boundary
 mouseExited – cursor crossed out of the boundary
 mousePressed – button down (specifics in MouseEvent)
 mouseReleased – button up
 mouseClicked – button down/up in quick succession
 A MouseMotionListener handles mouse movement
 mouseDragged – mouse moved while button down
 mouseMoved – mouse moved while button up
○ Point location info in MouseEvent
○ Location is relative to the listening components origin
JTabbedPane
 A component that lets the user switch between
a group of components by clicking on a tab with
a given title and/or icon
 Constructors
JTabbedPane()
 Adding Tabs:
addTab(tabname,component)
○ Places the specified component into the tabl and gives it the specified
name.
 Tab 1 has the label

Tab 2 has the panel

containing a label
and a text field
 JScrollPane
 Provides a scrollable view of any
lightweight Swing component

 Constructor
JScrollPane(anyComponent)
 The Vector Class
 in the java.util package
 resizable array containing references to Object instances
(or instances of Object subclasses)
Can be indexed
Can have elements added and deleted
 Some useful methods:
elementAt(int) – returns the object referenced by specified
element
addElement(Object) – adds the object to the end of the Vector
removeElementAt(int) – deletes the element at the specified index
removeAllElements() – empties out the vector
Simple example
using JTable,
Vector, JScrollPane
A JTable will
require two
collections (vectors
or arrays).

There will be a 2D
vector or array
containing the data
displayed in the
table.

There will also be a

1D array or vector
containing the
column headers.
Here we set up the
column-header
vector by adding
strings to it.

There will be a total

of four columns in
this example.
Here we set up the
data vector for the
JTable.

Note that this is a

vector of vectors
(that is, a 2-
dimensional
vector).

Therefore, it is
created using a
nested loop.

Outer loop sets up

the rows, inner loop
sets up the specific
elements within a
row.
In order to ensure
that the JTable is
scrollable, we put it
into a JScrollPane.

We add the
JScrollPane to the
frame instead of
directly adding the
JTable to the frame.
Out put