Basic Elements of The GUI By: Brandon Henderson and James Merino

About Graphical User Interface Commonly used on operating systems such as Windows and Mac Provides a much user-friendly interface for users Are event driven

What GUIs look like What Text-Based looks like

The Basic Elements of GUIs JTextField – Input through text Jlabel – Used to display text Jbutton – Input through a mouse click

Other more complex GUI elements… JPanel JComboBox JCheckBox

Code snippets JPanel – panel = new Jpanel(parameters go here); JLabel – label = new JLabel(text, additional parameters); JTextField – text = new TextField(text, width, additional parameters); JButton = new Jbutton(text, additional parameters); Requires an action listener method where the code that will be run when the button is pressed can be executed. Adding Elements: panel.add(name of element); button.addActionListener(this);

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