Faculty of Computer Science

Subject: Advance JAVA

Lecturer: Ajmal Rahmati
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Swing Controls
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• Swing Controls
• Every user interface considers the following three main aspects:
• UI elements : These are the core visual elements the user eventually sees
and interacts with.
• SWING provides a huge list of widely used and common elements varying
from basic to complex which we will cover in this tutorial.
• Layouts: They define how UI elements should be organized on the screen
and provide a final look and feel to the GUI (Graphical User Interface). This
part will be covered in Layout chapter.
• Behavior: These are events which occur when the user interacts with UI
elements. This part will be covered in Event Handling chapter.
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Event
What is an Event?
• Change in the state of an object is known as event i.e. event
describes the change in state of source.
• Events are generated as result of user interaction with the graphical
user interface components.
• For example, clicking on a button, moving the mouse, entering a
character through keyboard , selecting an item from list, scrolling the
page are the activities that causes an event to happen
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Event
Types of Event
The events can be broadly classified into two categories:
• Foreground Events - Those events which require the direct interaction of user.
• They are generated as consequences of a person interacting with the graphical components
in Graphical User Interface.
• For example, clicking on a button, moving the mouse, entering a character through
keyboard, selecting an item from list, scrolling the page etc.
• Background Events - Those events that does not require the interaction of end user are
known as background events.
• Operating system interrupts, hardware or software failure, timer expires, an operation
completion are the example of background events.
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What is Event Handling?

• Event Handling is the mechanism that controls the event and decides what should
happen if an event occurs.
• This mechanism have the code which is known as event handler that is executed when
an event occurs.
• Java Uses the Delegation Event Model to handle the events.
• This model defines the standard mechanism to generate and handle the events.Let's
have a brief introduction to this model.
• The Delegation Event Model has the following key participants namely:
• Source - The source is an object on which event occurs. Source is responsible for
providing information of the occurred event to it's handler. Java provide as with classes
for source object.
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What is Event Handling?

• Listener - It is also known as event handler.Listener is responsible for generating response to an
event.
• From java implementation point of view the listener is also an object. Listener waits until it
receives an event. Once the event is received , the listener process the event an then returns.
• The benefit of this approach is that the user interface logic is completely separated from the logic
that generates the event.
• The user interface element is able to delegate the processing of an event to the separate piece of
code.
• In this model ,Listener needs to be registered with the source object so that the listener can
receive the event notification.
• This is an efficient way of handling the event because the event notifications are sent only to
those listener that want to receive them.
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Steps involved in event handling

• The User clicks the button and the event is generated.
• Now the object of concerned event class is created automatically and
information about the source and the event get populated with in same object.
• Event object is forwarded to the method of registered listener class.
• the method is now get executed and returns
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Swing JLabel Class

• The class JLabel can display either text, an image, or both.
• Label's contents are aligned by setting the vertical and horizontal
alignment in its display area.
• By default, labels are vertically centered in their display area.
• Text-only labels are leading edge aligned, by default; image-only
labels are horizontally centered, by default.
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Swing JLabel Class

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Swing JButton Class

• The class JButton is an implementation of a push button.
• This component has a label and generates an event when pressed.
• It can have Image also.
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Swing JButton Class

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Swing JCheckBox Class

• The class JCheckBox is an implementation of a check box - an item
that can be selected or deselected, and which displays its state to the
user.
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Swing JCheckBox Class

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Swing JRadioButton Class

• The class JRadioButton is an implementation of a radio button - an
item that can be selected or deselected, and which displays its state
to the user.
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Swing JRadioButton Class

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Swing JComboBox Class

• The class JComboBox is a component which combines a button or
editable field and a drop-down list.
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Swing JComboBox Class

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Swing JTextField Class

• The class JTextField is a component which allows the editing of a
single line of text.
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Swing JTextField Class

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JPasswordField Class
The class JPasswordField is a component which is specialized to handle
password functionality and allows the editing of a single line of text.
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JPasswordField Class
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Swing JTextArea Class

The class JTextArea is a multi-line area to display plain text.
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Swing JTextArea Class

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Swing ImageIcon Class

The class ImageIcon is an implementation of the Icon interface that
paints Icons from Images.
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Swing ImageIcon Class

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Swing JScrollBar Class

The class JScrollBar is an implementation of scrollbar.
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Swing JScrollBar Class

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Swing JOptionPane Class

The class JOptionPane is a component which provides standard
methods to pop up a standard dialog box for a value or informs user of
something.
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Swing JOptionPane Class

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Swing JList Class

The class JList is a component which displays a list of objects and
allows the user to select one or more items. A separate model,
ListModel, maintains the contents of the list.
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Swing JList Class

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Swing JColorChooser Class

• The class JColorChooser provides a pane of controls designed to
allow a user to manipulate and select a color.
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Swing JColorChooser Class

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Swing JFileChooser Class

• The class JFileChooser is a component which provides a simple
mechanism for the user to choose a file.
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Swing JFileChooser Class

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Swing JSlider Class

• The class JSlider is a component which lets the user graphically select
a value by sliding a knob within a bounded interval.
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Swing JSlider Class

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Swing JSpinner Class

• The class JSpinner is a component which lets the user select a
number or an object value from an ordered sequence using an input
field.
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Swing JSpinner Class

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SWING - JProgressBar Class

• The class JProgressBar is a component which visually displays the
progress of some task.
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SWING - Menu Classes

• As we know that every top-level window has a menu bar
associated with it.
• This menu bar consists of various menu choices available
to the end user.
• Further, each choice contains a list of options, which is
called drop-down menus.
• Menu and MenuItem controls are subclass of
MenuComponent class.
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SWING - Menu Classes

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SWING - JProgressBar Class

• The class JProgressBar is a component which visually displays the
progress of some task.
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Suggested Reading for Lecture:

Introduction to Java Programming By: Y. Daniel Liang 8th edition
java how to program By: Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel 9th edition
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