Interfaces, GUIs, and Applets

CS 161 - Java

Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT)

A least common denominator set of GUI components supported by the native windowing environments of the platforms Java was originally built to support: Windows, Unix X Window System, Macintosh

Basic Controls

Button
Checkbox, Choice, List - for handling selectable items
Label
MenuItem - for presenting menubars
TextField

Other User Input Controls

Scrollbar
TextArea

Custom

Canvas - for arbitrary drawing

Containers

Panel, ScrollPane, Dialog
LayoutManagers

AWT being supplanted by Swing in JDK 1.1 and Java 2

Swing provides a superset of GUI capabilities.

Better, faster, more portable

Built on top of AWT

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