Java™ for Programmers: Deitel

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

Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?

—Lewis Carroll

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

—Gaston Bachelard

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

—Punch

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

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