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Foil 119 Actions associated with Components in AWT - II

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Suppose we have a bunch of buttons in a particular Container saying Red, Green, Blue as we illustrated earlier. Then a good action method would be
public boolean action(Event evt, Object arg) {
if( evt.target instanceof Button)
  • changeColor((String) arg); // changeColor Supplied by the user processes color defined by text string used in defining buttons
return true; // tell runtime that this event fully processed
}
void changeColor(String bname) { // A suitable user routine to be called by above action
if( bname.equals("Red")) setBackground(Color.red);
else if (bname.equals("Green")) setBackground(Color.green);
else if (bname.equals("Blue")) setBackground(Color.blue);
else setBackground(Color.pink); // our favorite color
}



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