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CS SE 1209 & IT 1210

Lecture 09 & 10
Introduction to JAVA GUI Programming and Database
Connection
30/07/2024
Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science | Software Engineering | Information Technology
Department of Computing
Faculty of Computing and Technology
Saegis Campus
Nugegoda

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Graphical User Interface
Many Java application use a graphical user interface or GUI.
• A GUI is a graphical window or windows that provide interaction with the
user.
• GUI’s accept input from:
– the keyboard
– a mouse.
• A window in a GUI consists of components that:
– present data to the user
– allow interaction with the application.

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Introduction
• Some common GUI components are:
– buttons, labels, text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, combo boxes, and sliders.

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GUI Programming

• Basic types of GUI Programs


– Stand-alone applications
– Applets

• Stranded GUI library


– AWT
– SWINIG

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Abstract Windowing Toolkit(AWT)

• IS a Original Java GUI API


• Very limited in capability
– Few components
– API not well structured, particularly event handling for user
actions
– Not entirely portable (used native widgets)

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JFC/Swing
• Java Foundation Classes (or “Swing”)
– Replacement for AWT (although does share some classes)
– Also provide basis for developing new GUI features (which are being continually added)

• What does Swing include?


– 100% Java
– Swing components (more, and more sophisticated)
– Pluggable Look and Feel Support
– Accessibility API
– Better graphics support (Java 2D)
– Drag and Drop

Important to use Swing and not AWT

– Swing is the recommended way to build Java GUIs

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Design Stages of the GUI
1. Design the user interface
– Organising pre-built GUI components to build windows,dialogs
– E.g buttons, tables, menus, etc

2. Writing the application logic


– What does the application do?

3. Writing event-handling code to tie the GUI


components to the application logic

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User interface
• A GUI is built in layers.

• Bottom most layer is the window (Container)


– Contains all other components
– Can provide basic features like maximise/minimise buttons,title bar, menu bar, etc

• On top of this are layered (Component)


– Components, e.g. buttons, text fields
– or intermediate containers, e.g. panels

• Arrangement of components in a contained is handled by a layout manager


– Its job is to instruct components on how to arrange themselves so the GUI is drawn
correctly.

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GUI Programming

• This layered GUI can be viewed as a hierarchy of components

– NOT an inheritance hierarchy,


– It just describes how components are nested one within another

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GUI Application

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The containment hierarchy

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Swing Top level containers
• JWindow
– Basic no frills window, just a square on the screen

• JFrame
– The basic Swing window. Offers basic window controls,resizable

• JDialog
– For building dialog boxes, e.g. File open/save

• JApplet
– For building applets, embedded into a web page

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SWING containers
• Panel
• Scroll Pane
• Tool Bar etc

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Controls

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Working with JFrames
• Many different possibilities, but the basics include:

– Setting window title


– Setting location on screen
– Setting size of window
– Restricting resizes
– Set close operation (exit the program), as by default it does nothing.

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GUI Programming

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Simple GUI Application

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Database Connection

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Connecting With Database
In order to connect Java program with the MySQL database, we need to
include MySQL JDBC driver which is a JAR file, namely mysql-connector-
java-8.0.13-bin.jar.

Make sure that you have installed the MySQL server on your machine.

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