COMP 504 Fall 2016	Lec02: GUI Building and UML Diagrams

GUI Building with WindowBuilder Walkthrough

References:

• Java GUI programming
• Using Eclipse
• Using WindowBuilder
• Inner Classes
  • Java Tutorial on Nested and Inner Classes
    • Another tutorial: Building an Application: Part 5: Writing Objects to Files, Using String Arrays, and More on GUI Components
  • The Essence of OOP using Java, Anonymous Classes (web article)
  • Anonymous inner class (advanced) technques
  • Connexions Module on Inner Classes  (requires that you understand the Visitor Design Pattern, which is covered later in this course)

We are going to step through the first part of HW01, so follow along with the directions there.

Development Steps:

• Make a new workspace in Eclipse
• Making  a new Java project in Eclipse
• Making a frame with a main() method
• Fixing WindowBuilder's bad auto-generated code!
• serialVersionUID warning
• Frame layouts: Border layout
• Dropping in
  • Panels
  • Buttons
  • Text fields
• Giving a button click behavior
• Overriding paintComponent()
  • Read the "The mystery of repaint" and "Painting a Shape" sections in Basic Animations in Java

© 2016 by Stephen Wong