GUI Components

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GUI Components

• Deitel, Chapter 11

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AWT vs. Swing

• Java provides two sets of GUI components
• Those contained in the Abstract Windowing Toolkit
• Tend to be tied to the underlying o/s and
  hardware
• Called heavyweight components
• Those contained in Java Swing
• Tend not to be tied to underlying o/s and
  hardware
• Called lightweight components
• Implication AWT components look different on
  different platforms. Swing components look the
  same.

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Swings Inheritance Hierarchy

• Object
• Component
• Container
• JComponent