1. John Hurley CS201 Cal State LA
CS 201 Lecture 8:
John Hurley
CS201
Cal State LA

2. Dialog Boxes
GUI construction is taught in CS202, but we will cover a few GUI rudiments in 201
The first is the JOptionPane class, which provides pop-up I/O boxes of several kinds
Need to include this at the very top of your class:
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog()
displays a dialog box with text you specify

3. Dialog Boxes import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class DialogBox{
public static void main(String[] args){
for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "This is number " + i); }

4. Dialog Boxes
JOptionPane.showInputDialog() shows a dialog box that can take input
The input is a String
We will learn soon how to parse from String to other types

5. Dialog Boxes
import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class InputBox{ public static void main(String[] args){ String input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter some input "); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You entered: \"" + input + "\""); String input2 = input.concat(" " + JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter some more input ")); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You entered: \"" + input2 + "\""); }

6. Casting Strings to Numeric Types
Recall that input from JOptionPane.showInputDialog is a String
Cast to integer: Integer.parseInt(intString);
Example:
String input =
int age = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.
showInputDialog(null, “Please enter your age”);
Cast to double: Double.parseDouble(doubleString);

7. Casting to Numeric Types
Note the capitalization in the method names. Double and Integer are not quite the same as double and integer.
You’ll understand when you are a little older…

8. Parsing to Integer import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class NumericCastDemo{
public static void main(String[] args){
int age = Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter your age"));
if(age < 30)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, age + " is pretty young.");
else if(age > 100) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "really?");
else JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "That's OK. Methuseleh lived to be " + (270 - age) +
" years older than you are now.");
} // end main()
} // end class

9. Parsing to Double import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class NumericCastDemo{
public static void main(String[] args){
double age = Double.parseDouble(JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Please enter your age"));
if(age < 30)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, age + " is pretty young.");
else if(age > 100) JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "really?");
else JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "That's OK. Methuseleh lived to be " + (270 / age) +
" times as old as you are now.");
} // end main()
} // end class

10. Imports
We have already discussed javax.swing.JOptionPane methods to show input and message dialogs
These required the following line at the top of the class:
Import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
If you omit this line, you will get an error message like this:
SwitchDemo.java: 7: cannot find symbol
Symbol:variable JOptionPane

11. Imports Java classes are organized in packages
Late in this class or early in CS202 you will start using packages for multiple classes
javax.swing is a package of GUI-related classes that is included with all distributions of Java
JOptionPane is a class within this package
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog() and JOptionPane.showInputDialog are methods of the class

12. Imports
Including a package in your program adds a small cost, slowing down the compiler as it looks through the imported package
Thus, things like javax.swing are not included automatically; you must specify that you need them
You will eventually be importing your own packages, too.
Don’t leave unused imports in your code

13. Convert Character and Numbers to Strings
The String class provides several static methods for converting characters, arrays of characters, and numeric values to Strings.
These methods are named valueOf() with different argument types char, char[], double, long, int, and float.
For example, to convert a double value to a string, use String.valueOf(5.44). The return value is string consists of characters ‘5’, ‘.’, ‘4’, and ‘4’.

14. public class ValueOfDemo{
public static void main(String[] args){
double d = ;
// this would cause an error: int precision=d.indexOf('.');
String stringD = String.valueOf(d);
int stringLength = stringD.length();
int locationOfDecimalPoint = stringD.indexOf(".");
System.out.println("length of string " + stringD + " is " + stringLength + " location of decimal point is " + locationOfDecimalPoint);
int precision = stringLength - locationOfDecimalPoint -1;
System.out.println(precision + " digits after the decimal point"); }

15. Validating Data Type
We have already discussed how to make sure that numeric input from Scanner is within a desired range
int age;
do {
System.out.println("How old are you?");
age = sc.nextInt();
} while (age < 0 || age > 100);

16. Validating Scanner Input
So far, our programs have crashed if casts to numeric types failed:
Try this with input “two point five”:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ReadDouble2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
Double stuff = 0.0;
do {
System.out.print("Input a double. Enter 0 to quit:");
stuff = input.nextDouble();
System.out.println("\nYou entered: " + stuff);
} while (stuff != 0.0); }

17. Validating Scanner Input
Here is the simplest way to validate Scanner input for data type (that is, to make sure you get input that can be cast to double, integer, etc.)
Scanner has hasNext…() methods that see if there is a parseable token
hasNextInt()
hasNextDouble()
hasNextBoolean()
Also need next() to skip over bad input

18. Validating Scanner Input
Try this one with input “nine.three”, then with input “nine point three:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ReadDouble3 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
Double inpDouble = 10.0;
// bad code ahead!!
do {
System.out.print("Input a double. Enter 0 to quit:");
if(input.hasNextDouble()){
inpDouble = input.nextDouble();
System.out.println("\nYou entered: " + inpDouble); }
else input.next();
} while (inpDouble != 0.0);

19. Validating Scanner Input
In order to get good output, we need to arrange things in a slightly more complex way:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class ReadInt{
public static void main(String[] args){
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int x;
System.out.println("Enter an integer");
while (!sc.hasNextInt()) {
sc.nextLine();
System.out.println("No, an integer!"); }
x = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println(x);

20. Validating Both Type and Value
In order to get good output, we need to arrange things in a slightly more complex way:
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int value = 0;
do {
System.out.println("Enter an integer greater than 100");
while (!(sc.hasNextInt())) {
sc.nextLine();
System.out.println("no, an integer!"); }
value = sc.nextInt();
if(value <= 100) System.out.println("No, an integer greater than 100");
} while (value <= 100);
System.out.println(value);

21. Documentation From Oracle
Java was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and was closed-source but free for many years
Java is now open-source
Anyone is free to use it or to write compilers, virtual machines, etc. that implement it
Oracle bought Sun a couple of years ago and now is the champion of Java

22. Documentation From Oracle
When you need a reference source for something like Scanner, look it up in Oracle’s excellent online documentation
Example: Google +Java +Scanner
Follow the link to