Field Trip #23 Hangman By Keith Lynn

JApplet A JApplet is a top-level container An applet is a small Java program that is executed by another program such as a browser JApplet is updated version of applet that allow us to use lightweight components that don't depend heavily on their environment This means that components should look the same no matter what environment they are on

Appletviewer An alternative to using a browser is to use the appletviewer program that is included in the JDK In order to use the appletviewer program, we create an HTML document where we include an applet tag The applet tag must contain the name of the class, the width and height

JButton A JButton is a graphical component We can place text on a JButton A JButton has a margin so some characters won't be displayed We can change the margin by obtain an Insets object and setting left and right to 0 and then applying it to the button

Graphics In order to display things like graphics, we will override either the paint or paintComponent method If we are directly drawing on a JApplet, then we override its paint method We can also create an instance of a JPanel and add this to the JApplet In the JPanel, we override the paintComponent method

LayoutManager We can specify how components are added to a Japplet or Jpanel by specifying a layout manager There are several built-in layout managers FlowLayout lays out components in a row GridLayout lays out components in a grid

String A String is a collection of characters We can retrieve the character at a certain location in a String with the method charAt(int) We can append characters to the String using the + symbol We can compare two Strings using the method equals or equalsIgnoreCase

Char A char is a single character There is a special relationship between chars and ints in Java If you treat a char as an int, it is converted to the ASCII value of the char The ASCII value of 'A' is 65

Events We can detect events and act on them by creating an event listener An event listener we can use with a button is the ActionListener ActionListener is an interface which contains the method actionPerformed If an ActionListener is registered with a button, then when the button is clicked, actionPerformed is called

Drawing Lines In order to draw lines and shapes, we need a Graphics object We get a reference to a Graphics object by overriding paint in a heavyweight component and paintComponent in a lightweight component A Jpanel is a lightweight component We the method drawLine(x0,y0,x1,y1) to draw a line between (x0,y0) and (x1,y1)

Sounds In order to play a sound in an applet, we use the method getAudioClip The first parameter to getAudioClip is a URL This can be a URL on the web or getCodeBase() to refer to the location of the.class file of the applet or getDocumentBase() to refer to the location of the.html file of the applet We play the audio clip with the method play

Hangman The plan for creating Hangman is to create three panels The first panel will contain buttons that represent the characters in the word The second panel will contain buttons indicating the characters in the alphabet that haven't been chosen The third panel will be used to draw the hangman

Hangman, cont'd We attach a listener to the buttons representing the alphabet Each time a letter is clicked, we search the word and display occurrences of the letter We then make the letter invisible in the alphabet If the letter didn't occur, we display another part of the hangman If the word is filled in the game is over and the user wins If the hangman is filled in and the word isn't, the user loses