Section 12.8 How Event Handling Works
• When an event occurs, the GUI component with which the user interacted notifies its registered listeners by calling each listener’s appropriate event-handling method.
• Every GUI component supports several event types. When an event occurs, the event is dispatched (p. 494) only to the event listeners of the appropriate type.
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