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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition
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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey Deitel
June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
Pearson
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26.7 Common GUI Event Types and Listener Interfaces

In Section 26.6, you learned that information about the event that occurs when the user presses Enter in a text field is stored in an ActionEvent object. Many different types of events can occur when the user interacts with a GUI. The event information is stored in an object of a class that extends AWTEvent (from package java.awt). Figure 26.11 illustrates a hierarchy containing many event classes from the package java.awt.event. Some of these are discussed in this chapter and Chapter 35. These event types are used with both AWT and Swing components. Additional event types that are specific to Swing GUI components are declared in package javax.swing.event.

Fig. 26.11 Some event classes of package ...

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