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Foil 38 Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT)

From Use of Java Language in Computational Science DoD Modernization Users Group Conference Monterey -- June 7 99. by Nancy McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox


This package contains all the classes to create graphical user interfaces.
It allows some primitive drawing (in a subpackage called graphics).
It has a number of components corresponding to parts of a windowing interface
  • basic components like buttons, textfields, lists, scrollbars, etc.
  • components such as panel and frame which allow you to place a number of other components within them. This is hierarchical.
There are layout managers to help arrange the components.
There are events and a model to handle events that come from user interactions such as clicking a button or typing in text. import awt.* ;
  • and import awt.event.* ;



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