Labeling GUI Components
A typical GUI consists of many components. GUI designers often provide text stating the purpose of each. Such text is known as a label and is created with a JLabel—a subclass of JComponent. A JLabel displays read-only text, an image, or both text and an image. Applications rarely change a label’s contents after creating it.
Look-and-Feel Observation 12.6
Text in a JLabel normally uses sentence-style capitalization.
The application of Figs. 12.6–12.7 demonstrates several JLabel features and presents the framework we use in most of our GUI examples. We did not highlight the code in this example, since most of it is new. ...
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