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Java AWT Reference
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Java AWT Reference

by John Zukowski
April 1997
Intermediate to advanced
1074 pages
22h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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18

java.applet Reference

In this chapter:

  • Introduction to the Reference Chapters
  • Package diagrams

Introduction to the Reference Chapters

The preceding seventeen chapters cover just about all there is to know about AWT. We have tried to organize them logically, and provide all the information that you would expect in a reference manual—plus much more in the way of examples and practical information about how to do things effectively. However, there are many times when you just need a reference book, pure and simple: one that's organized alphabetically, and where you can find any method if you know the class and package that it belongs to, without having to second guess the author's organizational approach. That's what the rest of this book provides. It's designed to help you if you need to look something up quickly, and find a brief but accurate summary of what it does. In these sections, the emphasis is on brief; if you want a longer description, look in the body of the book.

The reference sections describe the following packages:

  • java.applet (Chapter 18, java.applet Reference)
  • java.awt (Chapter 1, java.awt Reference)
  • java.awt.datatransfer (Chapter 20, java.awt.datatransfer Reference)
  • java.awt.event (Chapter 21, java.awt.event Reference)
  • java.awt.image (Chapter 22, java.awt.image Reference)
  • java.awt.peer (Chapter 23, java.awt.peer Reference)

Within each package, classes and interfaces are listed alphabetically. There is a description and a pseudo-code definition for each ...

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