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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Content preview from Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
838 CHAPTER 12 Graphical User Interfaces
12.5 Text Fields
Now we are ready for our first GUI program with user interaction. For this
first example, we will build a GUI that takes an ID and a password from a
user. If the ID is open and the password is sesame, we display Wel-
come! Otherwise, we display Sorry: wrong login.
We will use a JTextField for the ID and a JPasswordField for the password. For
confidentiality of passwords, the JPasswordField does not display the charac-
ters typed by the user. Instead, as each character is typed, the JPasswordField
displays an echo character. The default echo character is *, but we can specify
a different ...
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ISBN: 9780763749637