Summary of Chapter 1

  • An application containing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) should be divided into application, translation and presentation parts.
  • A State Transition Diagram (STD) contains an explicit specification of the interface which is to be constructed.
  • The physical appearance of an interface can be used to produce an application instance hierarchy which identifies the components required.
  • An applet is constructed by extending the Applet class and its interface can be constructed by overriding the Applet init() method.
  • Container classes, which include Panels, Frames and Applets, control the layout of their instance children using a layout policy.
  • The translation class has to implement a suitable Listener interface and be registered with an interactive component as its listener in order for it to respond to the user's actions.
  • The STD should be modelled in the translation class and call state-changing methods in the presentation class as appropriate.
  • An applet can be executed in a browser without a main() method, but a main() method must be supplied for it to be run as a stand alone application.

Exercises for Chapter 1

1.7 ClickCounter - producing an executable




A Java GUI programmer's primer
Java GUI Programmers Primer, A
ISBN: 0139088490
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 85
Authors: Fintan Culwin

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