GUI Programming in Java课件.ppt

GUI Programming in Java Tim McKenna Seneca@York 精品文档 GUI Programming Concepts conventional programming: sequence of operations is determined by the program what you want to happen, happens when you want it event-driven programming: sequence of operations is determined by the user’s interaction with the application’s interface anything that can happen, happens at any time 精品文档 GUI Design Concepts a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention- Herbert Simon Principles of good GUI Design IBMs Design concepts Saul Greenbergs HCI pages Tims HCI notes 精品文档 GUI Programming Concepts in Java Java GUI (Swing) has components Windows GUI has controls Unix GUI has widgets examples: labels, buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, text input boxes, pull down lists Java Swing components: JLabel, JButton, JCheckBox, JRadioButton, JTextField, JTextArea, JComboBox 精品文档 Java GUI history: the AWT AWT(JDK 1.0, 1.1): Abstract Window Toolkit package: java.awt, java.awt.event heavyweight components using native GUI system elements used for applets until most browsers supported JRE 1.2 精品文档 Swing in Java Swing(Java 2, JDK 1.2+) lightweight components that do not rely on the native GUI or OS “look and feel” of Swing components are identical on different platforms can be customized Swing inherits from AWT AWT still used for events, layouts 精品文档 Swing Components in Java advanced GUI support. e.g. drag-and-drop package names: javax.swing, javax.swing.event components inherit from JComponent components are added to a top-level container: JFrame, JDialog, or JApplet. 精品文档 running a Swing application java -Dswing.aatext=true MySwingClass the option sets the system property swing.aatext to true to enable anti-aliasing for every JComponent javaw runs a GUI without the console window e.g. HelloWorldSwing.java 精品文档 Basic GUI Programming Stepsin Java declare a container and components add components to one or more containers using a layout manager register event listener(s) with the comp