Chapter 10. Graphics and user interfaces
Introduction to the awt and Swing
The real world has been converted to wysiwyg
[1] and GUI
[2] interfaces, and Java is fully equipped to provide these options. The GUI part is provided inside two packages called java.awt – abstract windowing toolkit – and javax.swing. From now on we will call them the awt (pronounced ‘ought’) package and Swing, and know that they are Java’s platform-independent approach to user interfacing.
These packages are also completely driven from within the Java language. That means that any graphical ...
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