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Tutorial Factory Pattern (GUI Design)

This document introduces the factory design pattern for GUI applications. It presents a case study of using the factory pattern to display text with different styles, colors, sizes, etc. on different panels without having to create individual components for each text area. An abstract text area class is defined with common properties. Concrete subclasses are then created to represent different text styles by overriding the abstract properties. The subclasses are used to add tabbed panes with different text displays to a frame, demonstrating how the factory pattern avoids tedious creation of individual components.

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Tutorial Factory Pattern (GUI Design)

This document introduces the factory design pattern for GUI applications. It presents a case study of using the factory pattern to display text with different styles, colors, sizes, etc. on different panels without having to create individual components for each text area. An abstract text area class is defined with common properties. Concrete subclasses are then created to represent different text styles by overriding the abstract properties. The subclasses are used to add tabbed panes with different text displays to a frame, demonstrating how the factory pattern avoids tedious creation of individual components.

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Hello, everyone, nice to see you again, here I introduce a factory design patter n for GUI.

It is very basic and useful pattern for GUI design. What? Don?t u kno w it? Use google search Factory Pattern. Don?t confuse: design pattern only a so rt of strategy of programming, not a component or a bean. Let us ignore boring n otation of Factory Pattern, directly go to my case study: Problem: assume we need to display different style, color, content, size?. Of te xt on different panel. Solution: What is your design idea? Don?t tell me you will create each scrollpan e for each textarea for each different documents one by one. It is tedious work, I wont do that. I will use Factory Pattern bec I am lazy. Step 1 for Factory Pattern: find the common properties of the objects (here text ), abstract class and interface is basic elements for design pattern, I create a bstractTextArea class here: import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.*; public abstract class abstractTextArea{ abstract public String getFontName(); abstract public int getFontStyle(); abstract public int getFontSize(); abstract public Color getFontColor(); abstract public String getText(); JTextArea a=new JTextArea(); JScrollPane b= new JScrollPane(area()); public JTextArea area() { a.setText(getText()); a.setFont(new Font(getFontName(),getFontStyle(), getFontSize())); a.setLineWrap(true); a.setWrapStyleWord(true); a.setEditable(false); a.setForeground(getFontColor()); return a; } public JScrollPane scroll(){ b.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy( JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS); b.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);

return b; } } In this class, we create 5 properties for the text and definiate the common user interface which will be used for displaying text. Step 2: let us ?define one concrete instance of one of possible subclasses depen ding on the data which it is presented with?, I hate notation, but sometimes the y are necessary. assume the request text has such properties: font name: gg, fon t style: ITALIC, font size: 20, font color: BLUE, content: ?slfdsalfd?, so I hav e the one subclass here: import java.awt.*; public class textArea extends abstractTextArea{ public String getFontName() {return "gg";} public int getFontStyle() {return Font.ITALIC;} public int getFontSize() {return 20;} public Color getFontColor() {return Color.BLUE;} public String getText() {return "dsfdskfdsk";} } Also we can create another totally different instance: import java.awt.*; public class textArea1 extends abstractTextArea{ public String getFontName() {return "dfdf";} public int getFontStyle() {return Font.BOLD;} public int getFontSize() {return 15;} public Color getFontColor() {return Color.RED;} public String getText() {return "dsfdsf";} } You can create countless instance inherit the one parent class!!!!! Step 3: the actual work display those different text(very very easy job): import javax.swing.*; public class factoryTabbedPane extends JFrame { //initiate those subclasses private abstractTextArea test1=new textArea(); private abstractTextArea test2=new textArea1(); //add more as you wish?. public factoryTabbedPane () {

super("FactoryPattern"); JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane(); ImageIcon icon; /*add those components which contain the text,actually we only create one, but i t extends many different appearance children*/ tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 1", null, test1.scroll(), "Does nothing"); tabbedPane.addTab("Tab 2", null, test2.scroll(), "Does nothing"); //add more as you wish??. add(tabbedPane); setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); pack(); setSize(500,500); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new factoryTabbedPane(); } } From this example, you can easily create a simple internet brower with different display modes. Hope it is helpful, se ya!

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