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Event Handling

The document discusses event handling in Java, highlighting the support from packages like java.util and java.awt. It explains the Delegation Event Model where events are generated by sources and processed by listeners, who must register to receive notifications. Additionally, it describes adapter classes that provide empty implementations of event listener methods, allowing developers to focus on specific events of interest.

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Event Handling

The document discusses event handling in Java, highlighting the support from packages like java.util and java.awt. It explains the Delegation Event Model where events are generated by sources and processed by listeners, who must register to receive notifications. Additionally, it describes adapter classes that provide empty implementations of event listener methods, allowing developers to focus on specific events of interest.

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Event handling

• Events are supported by a number of


packages, including java.util, java.awt, and
java.awt.event.
• There are several types of events, including
those generated by the mouse, the keyboard,
and various GUI controls, such as a push
button, scroll bar, or check box.
Two Event Handling Mechanisms
• The Delegation Event Model:
• a source generates an event and sends it to
one or more listeners.
• the listener simply waits until it receives an
event.
• Once an event is received, the listener
processes the event and then returns.
• listeners must register with a source in order
to receive an event notification.
• an event is an object that describes a state
change in a source.
Handling Mouse Events
• See word file
Adapter class
• An adapter class provides an empty
implementation of all methods in an event listener
interface.
• Adapter classes are useful when you want to
receive and process only some of the events that
are handled by a particular event listener interface.
• You can define a new class to act as an event
listener by extending one of the adapter classes
and implementing only those events in which you
are interested.
• For example, the MouseMotionAdapter class has
two methods, mouseDragged( ) and
mouseMoved( ), which are the methods defined
by the MouseMotionListener interface.
• If you were interested in only mouse drag events,
then you could simply extend
MouseMotionAdapter and override
mouseDragged( ).
• The empty implementation of mouseMoved( )
would handle the mouse motion events for you.
• See the program on word file

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