
CHAPTER 20
Thejava.awt.peer Package
The interfaces in the java.awt.peer package define the native GUI capabilities that
ar erequir ed by the heavyweight AWT components of the java.awt package. Appli-
cation-level code never needs to use this package. Because the package is rarely
used and because the interfaces of this package closely mirror the component
classes of java.awt,nodescriptions are provided for the individual interfaces listed
her e. Figur e 20-1 shows the class hierarchy of this package.
ButtonPeer Ja va 1 .0
java.awt.peer PJ1.1
public abstract interface ButtonPeer extends ComponentPeer {
// Public Instance Methods
public abstract void setLabel(String label);
}
CanvasPeer Ja va 1.0
java.awt.peer PJ1.1
public abstract interface CanvasPeer extends ComponentPeer {
}
CheckboxMenuItemPeer Ja va 1.0
java.awt.peer PJ1.1
public abstract interface CheckboxMenuItemPeer extends MenuItemPeer {
// Public Instance Methods
public abstract void setState(boolean t);
}
java.awt.
peer
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