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The document discusses the JButton class in Swing. JButton allows adding text labels, icons, or both to button widgets. It has constructors that take an Icon, String, or both as parameters. The document provides examples of creating JButton instances with different configurations and adding action listeners to handle button clicks.

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JButton

The document discusses the JButton class in Swing. JButton allows adding text labels, icons, or both to button widgets. It has constructors that take an Icon, String, or both as parameters. The document provides examples of creating JButton instances with different configurations and adding action listeners to handle button clicks.

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09/08/09 SWING 1

The JButton Class

 Swing Buttons are subclass of the


AbstractButton.

 The JButton class provides the functionality


of a push button.

 JButton allows an icon, a String, or both to be


associated with the push button.

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The JButton Class

 Constructors

 JButton(Icon i)
 JButton(String s)
 JButton(String s, Icon i)

Here s, and i are the String and Icon used for the
Button.

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JButton

 Create an ImageIcon by passing the


ImageIcon
 constructor a String representing a GIF or
JPG file
 (animated GIFs are supported!)
 Pass the ImageIcon to the JButton
constructor

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JButton

 New features: icons, alignment, mnemonics

 Alignment: location of image with respect to


text

 Mnemonics: keyboard accelerators that let


you use AltsomeChar to trigger the button

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Example

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class ButtonSample {
public static void main(String args[]) {
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continue
Runnable runner = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Button Sample");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JButton button = new JButton("Select Me");
// Define ActionListener
ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
System.out.println("I was selected.");
}
};

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// Attach listeners
button.addActionListener(actionListener);
frame.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.setSize(300, 100);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
};
EventQueue.invokeLater(runner);
}
}

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Output

I was selected

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Example 2
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class JButtons extends JFrame {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new JButtons();
}
public JButtons() {
super("Using JButton");
WindowUtilities.setNativeLookAndFeel();
addWindowListener(new ExitListener());
Container content = getContentPane();
content.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

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JButton button1 = new JButton("Java");
content.add(button1);
ImageIcon cup = new ImageIcon("images/cup.gif");
JButton button2 = new JButton(cup);
content.add(button2);
JButton button3 = new JButton("Java", cup);
content.add(button3);
JButton button4 = new JButton("Java", cup);
button4.setHorizontalTextPosition
(SwingConstants.LEFT);
content.add(button4);
pack();
setVisible(true);
}
}

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Output

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