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Java Swing - Lecture 1 An Introduction

G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005. 2. Timeline. 27th Oct (Now) - Java Necessaries, Swing Basics28th Oct - Components and Containers3rd Oct - Layout Management17th Nov - Event Handling and Listeners18th Nov - Graphics with Swing8th Nov

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Java Swing - Lecture 1 An Introduction

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    1. Java Swing - Lecture 1 An Introduction Chris Coleman (cqc@cs.nott.ac.uk) http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cqc/G5BUID

    2. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 2 Timeline 27th Oct (Now) - Java Necessaries, Swing Basics 28th Oct - Components and Containers 3rd Oct - Layout Management 17th Nov - Event Handling and Listeners 18th Nov - Graphics with Swing 8th Nov – Problem Class Session Labs Start Week Beginning: 7th Nov. Time TBA.

    3. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 3 Before we Start… (1) Swing is all Java. You must know about, and understand: Classes / Objects Method Overloading Inheritance Polymorphism Interfaces How to read the Java2 API Documents

    4. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 4 Before We Start… (2) If Java is a problem – learn NOW, not in a month when the coursework is due! Labs Come to the labs and help is there for both Java and Swing. Web Use the Sun/Java tutorials Plenty of web resources out there, even the PRG notes Read a book?

    5. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 5 2D interface programming toolkits Tcl/Tk Motif/UIL IDEs (e.g. VB, MSVC++/MFC) Java AWT – the beginnings Java JFC Swing (Java2 - JDK >= 1.2) JBuilder and other Java IDEs etc…

    6. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 6 What is Swing? A part of The Java Foundation Classes Swing Look and feel Accessibility Java 2D (Java 2 onwards) Drag and Drop etc Can be used to build Standalone Apps as well as Servlets and Applets

    7. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 7 On-line reading and reference The Swing connection - http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/ The JFC Swing trail - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/ Fundamentals of JFC/Swing I & II - http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/

    8. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 8 Books Java Swing (1998), Robert Eckstein, Mark Loy, Dave Wood, O'Reilly JFC Swing Tutorial, The: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, 2nd Edition (2004); K. Walrath and M. Campione, Addison Wesley

    9. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 9 Getting started with Swing (1) Compiling & running programs Swing is standard in Java 2 (JDK >= 1.2) Use: ‘javac <program.java>’ && ‘java <program>’ Or JCreator / IDE

    10. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 10 Getting started with Swing (2) Computer Science Department Stuff… PCs Java 2 (1.5.0) on hard disk at \cs\java Unix (tuck and much): Java 2 (1.4.2) in /usr/bin (or /usr/java) Differences between previous versions http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/swing/SwingChanges.html http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/swing/SwingChanges.html Coursework marked on Win XP & JDK 1.5.0

    11. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 11 Getting started with Swing (3) Swing, like the rest of the Java API is subdivided into packages: javax.swing, javax.accessibility, javax.swing.border … At the start of your code - always import javax.swing; import javax.swing.event; Most Swing programs also need import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*;

    12. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 12 Differences between Swing and AWT (1) Never mix Swing and AWT components If you know AWT, put ‘J’ in front of everything AWT: Button Swing: JButton Swing does all that AWT does, but better and there’s much more of it.

    13. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 13 Differences between Swing and AWT (2) Buttons and labels can display images Behaviour and appearance of components Component shape Borders Assistive technologies Look and feel of the program’s GUI Windows – (but only on Windows, M$ issues….) UNIX GTK etc

    14. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 14 A typical Swing program Consists of multiple parts Containers Components Events Graphics (Threads) Now look at each in turn

    15. G5BUID - Java Swing - 2005 15 A simple Swing program - Containers Containers

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