Answers to Previous Questions and Lab Exercises

Introduction to the Package awt (awt = Abstract Windowing Toolkit) for creating GUIs

• A first example: drawing stick figures revisited.

• Some examples from Late Night Advanced Java, chaps 4 and 5.

Related material from the textbooks

• The Java 1.1 Developer's Handbook, section on Applications, pp. 32-38. This is a nice, helpful, little section that among other things explains how paint() gets called.

• Developer's Handbook, section on Life Cycle of an Event, pp. 45-50. This describes events that will look at how to handle using the JDK 1.0 event handling system. We will consider the more complex JDK 1.1 event handling system later.

• Late Night Advanced Java, chapters 5 and 6. Be forewarned that the Java code in these chapters contains many errors. Corrected programs for some of the examples can be found in chapter 5: corrected examples, and chapter 6: corrected examples.