Sams Teach Yourself Java™ in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition

Hour 13. Building a Simple User Interface

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating user interface components such as buttons

• Creating labels, text fields, and other components

• Grouping components together

• Putting components inside other components

• Opening and closing windows

Things are going to get pretty gooey during this hour. You will make an enormous mess creating your first graphical user interface (GUI) with Java.

Computer users have come to expect their software to feature a GUI, take user input from a mouse, and work like other programs. Although some users still work in command-line environments such as MS-DOS or a Linux shell, most would be confused by software that does not offer a point-and-click, drag-and-drop graphical ...