Java, A Beginner's Guide, 5th Edition, 5th Edition

Create a JCheckBox

After the push button, perhaps the next most widely used control is the check box. In Swing, a check box is an object of type JCheckBox. JCheckBox inherits AbstractButton and JToggleButton. Thus, a check box is, essentially, a special type of button.

JCheckBox defines several constructors. The one used here is

JCheckBox(String str)

It creates a check box that has the text specified by str as a label.

When a check box is selected or deselected (that is, checked or unchecked), an item event is generated. Item events are represented by the ItemEvent class. Item events are handled by classes that implement the ItemListener interface. This interface specifies only one method: itemStateChanged( ), which is shown here:

void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent ...