All AWT Components – At a Glance

AWT includes many components where a novice confuses a lot. For him, it is like in a deep forest without compass. To have all components at a single place and to focus on special programs, this topic is meant.

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1. Frame Closing – 4 Styles
   

   Using WindowListener	Using WindowAdapter
   Using Component	Using Anonymous inner class

2. AWT Components with Frame
   

   Component hierarchy	Button – 8 Steps GUI	Changing button label
   Visible invisible button	Enable disable button	Label alignment
   TextField – User name password	TextField properties	Checkbox
   Radio buttons	Choice	List
   TextArea	Scrollbar	Menus
   Canvas	Dialog box	File Dialog

3. AWT Components with Applets: Button applet, Radio buttons, Choice,
4. AWT Containers: Containers, Panels, Nested panels,
5. AWT Layout Managers: Layout classes, FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout, No layout manager(setBounds()),
6. AWT Supporting classes: Font, Color, Toolkit, FontMetrics,
7. Special Programs: Minimum component size, Insets, No layout manager,
8. Semantics of Event Handling: Listeners, Adapters, Delegation event model.
9. Placing your company logo on frame: Replacing coffee cup with other on frame.
10. Borderless Frame and Packing components: Create a frame without border.
11. Smiley Face and Nested Panels: Place panels within panels & smiley face.
12. Java AWT HeadlessException: A strange unchecked exception HeadlessException
13. Importing two packages: Importing java.awt.event when java.awt is already imported.
14. Changing Frame background: Java Random color generation.
15. Placing the frame at desired location: Frame Position.

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Note: User's selection, messages or component information etc. can be displayed in a number of ways as follows.

1. Using Label illustrated in "Java AWT Radio Buttons – Applet GUI".
2. With TextField as in "Java TextField – User Name Password Validation" and "Java AWT Choice – Replacement to Radio Buttons".
3. In TextArea as in "Java AWT Menu".
4. With drawString() method as in "Java AWT List – Multiple & Single Selection".
5. At DOS prompt illustrated in "Java AWT Label".

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To add more features to AWT componenets: Advanced AWT (Swing Components)
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