DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

CST 205 - Object Oriented Programming Using Java

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Swing Controls

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► ImageIcon
► The ImageIcon component creates an icon sized-image from an image
residing at the source URL.
► Example: ImageIcon homeIcon = new
ImageIcon(“src/images/home.jpg”);

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► Jbutton
► JButton class is used to create a push-button on the UI. The button can
contain some display text or image. It generates an event when clicked
and double-clicked.
► A JButton can be implemented in the application by calling one of its
constructors.
► Example: JButton okBtn = new JButton(“Ok”);
► This constructor returns a button with text Ok on it.
► JButton homeBtn = new JButton(homeIcon);
► It returns a button with a homeIcon on it.
► JButton btn2 = new JButton(homeIcon, “Home”);
► It returns a button with the home icon and text Home.

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► JLabel
► JLabel class is used to render a read-only text label or images on the UI.
It does not generate any event.
► Example: JLabel textLbl = new JLabel(“This is a text label.”);

► This constructor returns a label with text.

► JLabel imgLabel = new JLabel(homeIcon);
► It returns a label with a home icon.

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► JTextField
► JTextField renders an editable single-line text box.
► A user can input non-formatted text in the box.
► To initialize the text field, call its constructor and pass an optional
integer parameter to it.
► This parameter sets the width of the box measured by the number of
columns.
► It does not limit the number of characters that can be input in the box.
► Example: JTextField txtBox = new JTextField(20);
► It renders a text box of 20 column width.

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► JTextArea
► JTextArea class renders a multi-line text box.
► Similar to the JTextField, a user can input non-formatted text in the field.
The constructor for JTextArea also expects two integer parameters
which define the height and width of the text-area in columns.
► It does not restrict the number of characters that the user can input in
the text-area.
► Example:
► JTextArea txtArea = new JTextArea(“This text is default text for text area.”, 5, 20);
► The above code renders a multi-line text-area of height 5 rows and width 20
columns, with default text initialized in the text-area.

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► JPasswordField
► JPasswordField is a subclass of JTextField class.
► It renders a text-box that masks the user input text with bullet points.
This is used for inserting passwords into the application.
► Example:
► JPasswordField pwdField = new JPasswordField(15);
► var pwdValue = pwdField.getPassword();
► It returns a password field of 15 column width. The getPassword method gets the
value entered by the user.

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► JCheckBox
► JCheckBox renders a check-box with a label. The check-box has two
states – on/off. When selected, the state is on and a small tick is
displayed in the box.
► Example:
► CheckBox chkBox = new JCheckBox(“Show Help”, true);
► It returns a checkbox with the label Show Help. Notice the second
parameter in the constructor. It is a boolean value that indicates the default
state of the check-box. True means the check-box is defaulted to on state.

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► JRadioButton
► JRadioButton is used to render a group of radio buttons in the UI. A user
can select one choice from the group.
► Example:

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► JList
► JList component renders a scrollable list of elements. A user can select a
value or multiple values from the list. This select behavior is defined in
the code by the developer.
► Example

This code renders a list of cities with 5 items in the

list. The selection restriction is set to
SINGLE_SELECTION. If multiple selections is to be
allowed, set the behavior to
MULTIPLE_INTERVAL_SELECTION.

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► JComboBox
► JComboBox class is used to render a dropdown of the list of options.
► Example

► The default selected option can be specified through the setSelectedIndex method.
The above code sets Sydney as the default selected option.

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► JFileChooser
► JFileChooser class renders a file selection utility. This component lets a
user select a file from the local system.

► The above code creates a file chooser dialog and attaches it to the button. The button
click would open the file chooser dialog. The selected file is returned through the
getSelectedFile method.

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Swing Layout Managers
► Several AWT and Swing classes provide layout managers for
general use:
► BorderLayout
► BoxLayout
► CardLayout
► FlowLayout
► GridBagLayout
► GridLayout
► GroupLayout
► SpringLayout

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Swing Layout Managers - BorderLayout
► A BorderLayout places components in up to five areas: top,
bottom, left, right, and center.
► All extra space is placed in the center area.

► Tool bars that are created using JToolBar must be created within
a BorderLayout container, if you want to be able to drag and
drop the bars away from their starting positions.

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Swing Layout Managers - BoxLayout
► The BoxLayout class puts components in a single row or
column. It respects the components' requested maximum sizes
and also lets you align components.

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Swing Layout Managers - FlowLayout
► FlowLayout is the default layout manager for every JPanel. It
simply lays out components in a single row, starting a new row if
its container is not sufficiently wide.

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Swing Layout Managers - GridBagLayout
► GridBagLayout is a sophisticated, flexible layout manager.
► It aligns components by placing them within a grid of cells,
allowing components to span more than one cell.
► The rows in the grid can have different heights, and grid
columns can have different widths.

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Swing Layout Managers - GridLayout
► GridLayout simply makes a bunch of components equal in size
and displays them in the requested number of rows and
columns.

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Swing Layout Managers - GroupLayout
► GroupLayout is a layout manager that was developed for use by
GUI builder tools, but it can also be used manually.
► GroupLayout works with the horizontal and vertical layouts
separately.
► The layout is defined for each dimension independently.
Consequently, however, each component needs to be defined
twice in the layout.

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Swing Layout Managers - SpringLayout
► SpringLayout is a flexible layout manager designed for use by
GUI builders.
► It lets you specify precise relationships between the edges of
components under its control.

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 Thank You

Prof. Sarju S
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
St. Joseph’s College of Engineering and Technology, Palai

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