Java All-in-One For Dummies, 4th Edition

Chapter 2

Handling Events

In This Chapter

Understanding important event concepts

Working with event-handling classes and interfaces

Responding to button clicks

Using inner classes for event handling

Providing an Exit button

Dealing with the Close button

Taking another look at a button-click program

In Book VI, Chapter 1, I show you how to create Swing frames that include panels, labels, and buttons. Those frames don't do anything other than sit there, however. They look good, but they're completely unresponsive. Click them all you want, but they don't do anything. They're kind of like teenagers.

In this chapter, you get those buttons to do something. Specifically, you find out how to write code that's executed when a user clicks a button. The technique you use to do that is called ...