Swing/AWT/SWT :: Splitting GUI Into Multiple Classes?
Sep 12, 2014
I'm trying to create a Java swing chess application, but would like to divide the GUI part of it into at least two different classes (possibly more later, but I'm not sure yet). Currently I have a mainGUI class and a ChessBoard class, both of which extend JFrame. I want the main GUI class to contain a JPanel which will house several components, including a JPanel originating from the chessboard class that contains the actual board.
Is there any way to do this? I tried just creating a ChessBoard object in my main GUI class and then adding it to the component, but I got an illegal argument exception, because apparently you can't add one JFrame to another. How to do what I'm trying to do, or just how to split GUIs into multiple classes in general?
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May 5, 2015
I'm very new to Java, and I am creating a program that takes multiple user input to create one face. I have a class for the eyes, nose, lips, and headshape. For some reason, my program is not drawing the graphics. ***for question purposes, I have only included my head shape class and my test class****
my "test" class:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class FaceTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String head = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Would you like a circle, square, rectangle shaped head?: ");
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Oct 25, 2014
I have to make a retail item class that has description, price and quantity. I then have to make a CashRegister class that calculates subtotal, tax, total and displays it (toString). I also have to make a driver class to call the methods from main. I have no clue what I am doing and what I have done does not work. I am trying to make it sort of like a cart, in the CashRegister it should ask the user to enter the description, quantity purchased and the price. Then it would send that to the arraylist of retailitem. I am having trouble using those items in my other methods and then do not know how to call those in the driver class.. So here are my classes:
public class RetailItem {
private String description;
private int quantity;
private double price;
public RetailItem(){
description = "";
quantity = 0;
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Apr 25, 2014
I was trying to play around a little bit after learning creating multiple classes and stuff.However,i encountered a strange problem with reading a value from the user and then storing it in a variable.The usual way i do it is
Scanner variableName=new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println(variableName.nextLine());
But when i trying to print the contents of the variable "variableName" the compiler throws a lot of errors .I am attaching how i have tried that out in my code
import java.util.Scanner;
class laptop{
private String modelNumber;
private boolean hasFan;
private float ramSpeed;
protected int numCores;
//private String input;
[code]....
Without the setInfo() in the laptop class the program functions as desired but i intend to ask the user if he wants to modify something and then reflect the same.
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Mar 1, 2015
I have recently start learning about objects and classes in java. I understand that in order to use multiple classes in one file you need one class to be public and the rest are private. But after that I don't understand how to invoke the private class in the public class. I thought if I tried programming on my own I can have a better understanding of it, but had no success.
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Jan 31, 2015
I'm having problems with this I've code like:
Java Code:
Public Class{
Objects
Constructor(){}
ActionListener Method(){}
Main Function()}
[Code]....
but I cannot declare variables in this method, how can I do this what can be the simplest method?
In addition: I've a marksheet class, a calculator class, & in main class I've 2 buttons one for marksheet & one for calculator, how can I make it so that if user clicks on marksheet button that class should be called & so?
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Oct 25, 2014
Alright.. So I have to make a retail item class that has description, price and quantity. I then have to make a CashRegister class that calculates subtotal, tax, total and displays it (toString). I also have to make a driver class to call the methods from main. I have no clue what I am doing and what I have done does not work. I am trying to make it sort of like a cart, in the CashRegister it should ask the user to enter the description, quantity purchased and the price. Then it would send that to the arraylist of retailitem. I am having trouble using those items in my other methods and then do not know how to call those in the driver class...
So here are my classes: [URL] ....
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Mar 6, 2014
I have multiple Java classes that holds lots of time based parameters, e.g.: (simplified):
Java Code: class Engine {
float rpm;
boolean enabled;
int runningTime;
[code]....
Is there any simply solution to map all these parameters from my TimeRecord to one list(vector,map) of params that user can choose from and see the value in proper form (floating type, boolean type) ?
I just want that user can pick a paremter's name from list or combobox and choose parameter that he wants to see. I don't want to duplicate the data - just some kind of mapping algorithm between list of parameters names and my TimeRecord. eg. some collection class that holds all names and connections: Parameters params; fill combo/list from this class for ( String name : params ) { combo.add(name);}, then when user picks some field from combo: params.getValue( myTimeRecord, name ) return correct parameter value (just my first thought)
Later, I want to replace all floats,ints,booleans with some kind of templated class eg. Value which will hold all kinds of measurement unit with conversion support - but it's only a plan now.
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Nov 1, 2014
I was reading the book, "Head First Java" and it was talking about how there may be multiple classes in a large application, but there will be only one main method.how does it work that way? How can you have multiple classes, but only one main method?
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Jan 16, 2015
I have multiple classes in one package and was wondering how to I use one class while in another?
What I mean is I have one sheet with a class and another sheet with another class. (Separate tabs in Eclipse).
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Aug 16, 2014
I studied that java does not support multiple inheritance using classes. It is fine practically, but I have still a question in mind:Lets see the below code.
class Test{
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}
class MyTest extends Test{
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}
Here, as we know that that Object is Super class for every class in java. and I have already extends a Test class in MyTest.My question is: How is it possible to extend features of two class at the same time?
Theoretically,
MyTest extends Object &
MyTest extends Test.
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May 17, 2014
I want the text that the user inputs into the JTextField in the user input panel to be what shows up in the JTextField in the totals panel.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
[Code] ......
I know that I will need to take advantage of the get and set methods, could I get an example of this? How to write the code.
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Feb 19, 2014
In the book we made a GUI which has 2 buttons, a label and a panel (the panel is a subclass of JPanel). What the program does is the following: When I press one of the two buttons, in the panel there is a rectangle that changes its color. When I press the other button it has to change the text on the label. Now the problem is that when I start the program, the FIRST time I press the button on which the label must change, this also changes the color in the rectangle, which it should not (I also noticed that when i FIRST click the rectangle shifts a little bit to the left). After that the program works fine.
Here is my code:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TwoButtons{
JFrame fr;
JButton labelButton;
JButton colorButton;
JLabel label;
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Apr 8, 2014
Im writing a program that records the score in a dart game. One component of the program is a stage where players enter their name.This information needs to be displayed in another part of the program. These two components are in two different classes. My problem is I dont know how to get that information from one class to another.
Im using Jtextfield in Jframe to record the information.
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Mar 12, 2015
1. Tried to use setLayout() but it wouldn't let me. Have imported libs
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
but it doesn't work. It only worked when I extended a class with JFrame. Why do I have to do it? I already have a JFrame instance:
public test(){
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.setTitle("Workshop");
frame.setBounds(500,300,400,300);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
....
}
This code runs smooth, so it's confusing for me that it lets me create a JFrame object, and put buttons onto it, but it wants me to extend the class onto JFrame class in order to use a method.
2. I've read somewhere that AWT is old and should not be used anymore. Is there a diagram or a list with objects and properties that are manipulated only by Swing so that I could concentrate only on those? For example (made up list):
JPaper -
- width, setWidth(x)
- height, setHeight(x)
- position, setPosition(x,y)
- color, setBackground(RGBa)
- acquire, add(subordinate component)
- deprive, remove( subordinate comopnent)
- etc...
JSticker -
- width ...
- height ...
- write, setText(String)
- etc...
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Apr 14, 2014
I am new a creating GUIs and am not quite sure how to correctly make one. I have done the inheritance parts, and created two extra appliances: a washer and dryer. Now Creating the GUI ....
Here are the instructions to my project.
Introduction to GUIs (+ some inheritance)
For this assignment, you are going to create a user interface that interacts with the setters and getters of some classes that you will create.
First, create an abstract class called Appliance. This abstract class should have two attributes (dealing with household appliances) and two abstract methods called turnOn() and turnOff(). These methods should return void.
Then, create two subclasses of Appliance that represent household appliances (like a Refrigerator or Stove ((don't use those!))). These subclasses should have two attributes that are specific to the various appliance. Each subclass should implement the turnOn() and turnOff() methods. These methods should print to the command line some information about the appliance as it turns on and off.
Now, the fun part! Create a GUI interface!
Your window should have two panels: one for each appliance subclass. Each panel should have 4 textboxes (with appropriate labels) to receive/display information that correspond to the 4 attributes (2 from Appliance and 2 from the subclass) for each subclass.You also need 2 buttons on each panel: A Get button and a Set button.
When the Get button is pressed, the text boxes should be filled with the information from the instantiated object of the appropriate subclass. When the Set button is pressed, the object should then contain the information contained that the user has altered.
In your main method, you should create an object of each subclass, and prefill it with information (either using the constructor or the setters), then display your GUI. You should now be able to get and set the information for your objects from the GUI.
At least one of your attributes for each subclass should be numeric
Note that you will need to handle incorrectly formatted input (You can use exception handling to do this if you want to. Wrapper classes also will work)
If there is text in the boxes when the "Get" button is pressed, it should be overwritten by what is in the object. Remember that these two panels should both be on screen at the same time.
You don't need 2 different windows, one window: 2 panels.
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Feb 5, 2014
Can you have multiple key events? by that I mean say you press the right arrow key, or a number on the numeric pad, then you press the letter c. does the second key event get fired? and i can catch both events?
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May 27, 2014
I've been doing a course with a heavy focus on applets and AWT using BlueJ. I've branched out and learn to convert my applets to applications. I can successfully use frames to do similar things to applets (in BlueJ's applet viewer) but I can not seem to run more than application at a time (unlike applets where I could run several at the same time).
Below is a simple Hello World program I wrote. When I re-run main() it closes the original and starts again. (I'm aiming to explore the java.net.* libraries and for testing would like to use more than one frame at a time which can communicate to each over via sockets).
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class HelloWorld extends Frame implements WindowListener {
public static void main (String[] args) {
HelloWorld app = new HelloWorld();
app.setSize(500,500);
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Feb 20, 2014
The below program ask the user to enter the value of x 1 , Y 1 and radius in separate boxes , What would look nice is if the user can Enter the Value X ,Y and radius in the same box.
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class C3E29GeometryTwoCircles {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Ask the user to enter the x1 coordinate.
String strNumber = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the value of x1 coordinate " );
double x1 = Double.parseDouble(strNumber);
strNumber = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the value of y1 coordinate " );
double y1 = Double.parseDouble(strNumber);
[code]...
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Oct 25, 2014
So im making a calculator just basic 4 function with a clear button. as i am working into this project i am running into an issue of assigning which click sets what. For instance i click the two button how do i tell it to assign it to firstNum, versus secondNum?
private class theHandler implements ActionListener{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
if(event.getSource()==one){
firstNum=1;
}
if(event.getSource()==two){
secondNum =2;
}
if(event.getSource()==three){
secondNum =3;
}
So this for instance allows me to set one to the firstNum and then add it to two or three but im not sure what to do next. I have in my mind i want to do something like make three listener classes, that operate in sequential order like you pick the first numbers, click an operation, and then select the second numbers then hit the operation(equal) button to display answer. Am i on the right track or what?
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Jun 30, 2014
I have to do an assigment using Swing, where I have to make a Board(extends JPanel) and add multiple instances of moving elements to it, with following requirements:
By adding a new object to the Board, the others must not slow down. Also the user interface must not be blocked by the moving objects. So, the movement of the objects must be handled in a separate thread.
and
The application must support adding lots of objects, so it is not okay if every object has its own thread, as this would take too many resources. Design the application in such a way that it uses a constant number of threads, meaning that the number of threads does not grow when adding more objects.
The question is:
How to do this thing with constant number of threads?
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Aug 23, 2014
I have a Swing UI in which on click of Search button, I trigger the Search in 6 different modules in 6 Swing Worker threads. The results are returned by each Swing Worker class to the calling class.
I tried to use the below code to get the values returned from each thread. Now, I want to continue further only after all threads finish their execution. How to achieve this?
thread1.addPropertyChangeListener(new PropertyChangeListener() {
public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
if (StateValue.DONE == thread1.getState()) {
try {
[Code] ....
I got several examples where the UI is updated direstly from multiple threads. I want the values to be returned to calling class because of below reasons:
1) When even one worker thread fails for some reason, I dont want to show the any result in the UI
2) Earlier, I was updating the UI in done() of every worker class. But, UI became inconsistent. E.g When one thread is in progress, other threads were completed and updating the UI which I dont want to do.
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May 3, 2014
I'm having difficulty implementing keyboard and mouse event handlers at the same time for a program designed to notify the user when a key has been pressed or a mouse button clicked.
I can make and understand a program that does one or the other, but when I try to combine them, either the keyboard only or the mouse only works.
here is the code:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
[Code] ....
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Feb 22, 2014
I have created two classes. The FrameViewer is my driver class, and Circle is my constructor.
The first problem is, the program seems to be creating both circles, but it only displays displaying the last added circle (in this case, circle2).
The second problem is, I want to pass the color I wish to use to the constructor, but I'm having problems figuring out the proper method to do so. In the constructor, I have assigned Color.BLUE as a default. On circle two, I want to override this color choice and assign Color.Orange. I am not having any luck setting this to work either.
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.Color;
public class FrameViewer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
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Apr 22, 2013
Code given below does real time validation for 2 JTextFields. While entering some values to txt1 and txt2 enables the save button and removing values from txt2 or txt1 reset the save button to disable. I use Netbeans as IDE.What I want to do is, enable Save button after checking multiple JTextFields for validity. If any of the text fields is empty, btnSave must be disabled.This program gives expected result up to some extent. But there is little issue. After form appears for the first time, When I type something on Textfield1, Save button enables without checking Textfield2. This happens only at the first time.
public class NewJFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
private Boolean isValidFromTextField1 = true;
private Boolean isValidFromTextField2 = true;
public NewJFrame() {
initComponents();
btnSave.setEnabled(false);
[code]....
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Mar 29, 2014
I'm struggling with a small project. I have 2 jFrames. The first frame has a button that...
- Display's the second frame containing a progressbar
- Starts a heavy processing thread
I need to update the progressbar on the second jFrame, from a thread started on the first jFrame.
I have 2 problems:
- How do I update the progressbar?
- When the button is clicked, an empty second frame is displayed with no controls. The controls are only rendered/shown, after the large thread process is finished...
I've attached to this post a small screenshot, showing the main idea ...
Source code:
Button action on the first frame:
private void btnGoActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Progress progress = new Progress(); // The second frame
progress.setVisible(true);
clsProcess myProcess = new clsProcess(); // The thread process
myProcess.start();
[Code] ....
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