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Java Swing Components Overview

Java Swing is a graphic user interface library that extends AWT and offers a wide range of classes for building applications. Key components include containers like JFrame, JDialog, and JApplet, as well as various UI elements such as JButton, JLabel, and JTextField. The document outlines the steps to create a JFrame, add components, and customize their properties.

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Java Swing Components Overview

Java Swing is a graphic user interface library that extends AWT and offers a wide range of classes for building applications. Key components include containers like JFrame, JDialog, and JApplet, as well as various UI elements such as JButton, JLabel, and JTextField. The document outlines the steps to create a JFrame, add components, and customize their properties.

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Java Swing

Graphic User Interfaces Library


Introduction Main elements
● Swing is a graphic user ● Containers:
interface library.
● It extends from an older library Elements capable of containing
called AWT. other elements.
● Swing has a huge amount of ● Components:
classes.
● It is object-oriented. Elements that are added to
containers. They usually have a
graphic appearance, like buttons.
Container Types
JFrame: Used as a main JDialog: It is displayed as a JApplet: It allows to create
window with a frame and a window independent of the main applications with graphical
title bar. window to display information, interface that run in the context
such as the contents of a of a web browser.
directory.
JFrame
My First JFrame - Step by step
If you run the program, it won’t show any windows.
So, lets set the SIZE of the frame.

Now give it a try!


Still nothing? We still need to set the frame to
VISIBLE.
If you run the program now, it should show something like
this:
What happens if you close it?

The frame may close, but the execution won’t


stop.
To fix that, we need to set a default close
operation
Important JFrame Methods

● setLocation(x,y)
● setBounds(x,y,width,height)
● setIconImage(Image image)
● setTitle(String title)
● setResizable (Boolean resizable)
setLocation(x,y)
setBounds(x,y,width,height)
setResizable(Boolean resizable)
setTitle(String title)

Puts a title on the


window.
Centering the window (frame)
● Toolkit ● Width
● getScreenSize() ● Height
Centering the window
JFrame structure and JPanels
Title
Frame
Panel 1

Panel 2
Steps to add a JPanel

1. We need a JFrame
2. Create our JPanel

3. Add it to our Frame


Basic Swing Components
Basic Swing components

● JButton
● JLabel
● JTextField
● JPasswordField
Try to place a button on your Panel
setLayout(null) & setBounds(x,y,w,h)
JLabel

JTextField

JPasswordField
JCheckBox(String name, Boolean marked)

JComboBox(String[] options)
JRadioButton(String)

ButtonGroup
JSlider(min,max,current)
Sets large lines every 25.
Sets small lines every 5.
Makes the lines visible
Paints the string with
numbers
JTextArea(rows,columns) and JScrollPane(JTextArea)

Rows

Columns

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