CHAPTER 25Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus
This chapter continues our exploration of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). It begins with an examination of the standard controls and layout managers. It then discusses menus and the menu bar. The chapter also includes a discussion of two high-level components: the dialog box and the file dialog box. It concludes with another look at event handling.
Controls are components that allow a user to interact with your application in various ways—for example, a commonly used control is the push button. A layout manager automatically positions components within a container. Thus, the appearance of a window is determined by a combination of the controls that it contains and the layout manager ...
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