Java How to Program Fourth Edition - DCC

Chapter 13 Graphical User Interface Components: Part 2 721
Outline
13.1 Introduction
13.2 JTextArea
13.3 Creating a Customized Subclass of JPanel
13.4 Creating a Self-Contained Subclass of JPanel
13.5 JSlider
13.6 Windows
13.7 Designing Programs that Execute as Applets or Applications
13.8 Using Menus with Frames
13.9 Using JPopupMenus
13.10 Pluggable Look-and-Feel
13.11 Using JDesktopPane and JInternalFrame
13.12 Layout Managers
13.13 BoxLayout Layout Manager
13.14 CardLayout Layout Manager
13.15 GridBagLayout Layout Manager
13.16 GridBagConstraints Constants RELATIVE and REMAINDER
13.17 (Optional Case Study) Thinking About Objects: Model-View-
Controller
13.18 (Optional) Discovering Design Patterns: Design Patterns Used in
Packages java.awt and javax.swing
13.18.1 Creational Design Patterns
13.18.2 Structural Design Patterns
13.18.3 Behavioral Design Patterns
13.18.4 Conclusion
Summary • Terminology • Self-Review Exercises • Answers to Self-Review Exercises • Exercises
13.1 Introduction
In this chapter, we continue our study of GUIs. We discuss more advanced components and
layout managers and lay the groundwork for building complex GUIs.
We begin our discussion with another text-based GUI component—JTextArea—
which allows multiple lines of text to be displayed or input. We continue with two examples
of customizing class JPanel in which we discuss issues that relate to painting on Swing
GUI components. Next, we illustrate how to design a Java program that can execute as both
an applet and an application. An important aspect of any complete GUI is a system of
menus that enable the user to effectively perform tasks in the program. The next two examples
discuss how to create and use menus. The look-and-feel of a Swing GUI can be uniform
across all platforms on which the Java program is executed, or the GUI can be