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Foil 29 Events in the java.awt -- Mouse, Keyboard Interaction - I

From Jan 29 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- Java Lecture 3 -- Exceptions Through Events CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 29 1997. by Nancy McCracken * See also color IMAGE
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Events ( distinguish these from Exceptions!) are the way the AWT interacts with the user at mouse or keyboard.
The AWT calls particular event handlers (analogous to exception or interrupt handlers) when user interacts with system in particular ways.
The handling is defined in packages java.awt and java.awt.peer (the machine dependent stuff) with method handleEvent() in class Component(peer)
One could add additional capability here for systems with nifty virtual reality and other user interfaces but we won't cover this here!
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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