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

2. 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

3. What GUIs look like
What Text-Based looks like

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

5. Other more complex GUI elements…
JPanel
JComboBox
JCheckBox

6. 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);

7. Thanks for listening!