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Foil 49 Some Further AWT Components -- typical subunits of panels

From Java Tutorial - Spring 1997 Part 3:Graphics and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit Peking Tutorial, Web Certificate -- Spring-Summer 1997. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Choice is a class that gives a menu where you choose from various items
2 TextField is a simple class where user can enter information into fields (more details on next page)
3 TextArea is a somewhat more sophisticated text entry area which are scrollable and so useful where amount of data to be entered is unlimited
4 List is another child of Component that is similar in use to Choice but gives a fixed size list which can be scrolled and where you can select one or more entries
5 Scrollbar is a class that defines a horizontal or vertical scrollbar. Note this is distinct from scrollbars that come with TextArea and List

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