Week 8 - 9 | CCS103

Swing

Java provides ___ as a part of the Java Foundation Classes for creating graphical user interfaces.

Swing

This offers a rich set of lightweight components that can be added to windows to interact with users.

Widgets / Controls

What do you call the components that can be added to a window to interact with a user?

JLabel

This is a GUI component used to display uneditable text, images, or both. It is often used to label other controls like text fields.

setText(String text)

This JLabel method sets the label text

getText()

This JLabel method retrieves the current text

JTextField

This is a single-line text input component that allows users to enter or edit text.

JButton

This is a clickable button used to trigger actions when the user interacts with it.

JTextArea

This is a multi-line area for displaying or editing text. This is useful for large input or output.

JPasswordField

This is a single-line text input that hides the characters with echo characters.

JOptionPane

This is a utility class for creating standard dialogs (message, input, confirm). It is not a component you add to a container but a dialog popup.