Questions and Exercises - JFC Swing Tutorial, The: A Guide to Constructing GUIs, Second Edition

Questions and Exercises

Questions

1:	On what thread should GUIs be created, to guarantee thread safety?
2:	Why should you be careful to minimize the time spent in event-handler code?
3:	What is the purpose of the setLabelFor method?
4:	What is the content pane?
5:	Describe the three code segments that must be implemented for an event handler.
6:	Which text component is best suited for controlling the format of a single line of user-entered text?
7:	What is lazy image loading and why would you use it?

Exercises

1:	Write the code that creates a label displaying the following text, with the italics and font size as shown in this screenshot:
2:	Convert the LunarPhases[12] example to use radio buttons instead of a combo box. [12] You can find the LunarPhases source files here: JavaTutorial/uiswing/learn/example-1dot4/index.html#LunarPhases.
3:	Add a Show Dialog check box to the VoteDialog[13] example so that the dialogs are shown only if this check box is selected. [13] You can find the VoteDialog source files here: JavaTutorial/uiswing/learn/example-1dot4/index.html#VoteDialog.

Answers

You can find answers to the Questions and Exercises online:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/QandE/answers.html