G6DICP - Lecture 18

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G6DICP - Lecture 18

• AWT Components

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Components

• Components are classes that represent GUI
  elements
• Instances of the class represent specific
  elements
• Encapsulation makes them self-contained
• Components are added to containers
• For example Frame
• add() method of containers
• Usually in constructor of Frame subclasses
• NEVER in paint()

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Major AWT Component Classes

• All in AWT package
• All subclassed from class Component
• Label
• Button
• TextField
• TextArea
• CheckBox
• Grouped
• Ungrouped
• List
• Choice
• Menus