Java抽象窗口工具包外文文献翻译.doc

外文原文 The Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit For the past five days you’ve concentrated on creating applets that do very simple things: display text, play an animation or a sound, or enable very basic interactions with the user. Once you get past that point, however, you may want to start creating more complex applets that behave like real applications, embedded in a Web page—applets that start to look like real GUI applications with buttons, menus, text fields and other elements of a real application. It’s this sort of real work in Java applets and applications that Java’s Abstract Windowing Toolkit, or AWT, was designed for. You’ve actually been using the AWT all along, as you might have guessed from the classes you’ve been importing. The Applet class and most of the classes you’ve been using this week are all integral parts of the AWT. In fact, the HotJava browser is also written in Java and uses the AWT as well. The AWT provides the following: 口 A full set of UI widgets and other components, including windows, menus, buttons, checkboxes, text fields, scrollbars, and scrolling lists 口 Support for UI “containers,” which can contain other embedded containers or UI widgets 口 An event system for managing system and user events between and among parts of the AWT 口 Mechanisms for laying out components in a way that enables platform-independent UI design Today, you’ll learn about how to use all these things in your Java applets. Tomorrow, you’ll learn about creating windows, menus, and dialogs, which enable you to pop up separate windows from the browser window. In addition, you can use the AWT in stand-alone applications, so everything you’ve learned so far this week can still be used. If you find the framework of the Web browser too limiting, you can take your AWT background and start writing full-fledged Java applications. Today, however, you’ll continue focusing on applets. Note: This is by far the most complex lesson so far. There’s a lot to cover and a lot of code to