Graphic Java™ 1.2, Volume I: AWT, Third Edition

Chapter 9. The Delegation Event Model (AWT 1.1 and Beyond)

• The Delegation Event Model

• The Big Picture

• AWT Adapters

• Component Events

• Semantic Events

• Event Adapters

• Inner Classes

• Firing AWT Events from Custom Components

• Firing Custom Events from Custom Components

• Dispatching Events and the AWT Event Queue

• Active Events

• Inheritance-Based Mechanism

• Event Handling Design

• Summary

The 1.1 version of the AWT introduced a new delegation-based event model that is vastly improved over the original, inheritance-based model. The delegation event model supports the inheritance-based (original) event model; however, the inheritance-based model will be phased out in a future release.

This chapter discusses the delegation event model. In “Shortcomings of the Inheritance-Based ...