CHAPTER 4
Button Up! Using Buttons and Labels
Up to this point, the applications you built in this book have been kind of boring.1 They really haven’t done anything except display a message. But now it’s time to change that. In this chapter, you’re going to add a button to your application and then have it react when the user presses it. How does that sound?
To do this you’ll first take a look at the JButton class hierarchy and see the Java way to create a button and add it to the application frame. Then you’ll see a verbose way, in Jython, to do the same thing. Then you’ll see a more concise way to put a button on the frame and have an event ...
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