February 2009
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
36h 3m
English
book
Java™ for Programmers: Deitel
by Paul J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., Harvey M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
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11. GUI Components: Part 1
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• The design principles of graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
• To build GUIs and handle events generated by user interactions with GUIs.
• To understand the packages containing GUI components, event-handling classes and interfaces.
• To create and manipulate buttons, labels, lists, text fields and panels.
• To handle mouse events and keyboard events.
• To use layout managers to arrange GUI components
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