Graphical User Interfaces

Download the zip file containing all the examples from chapter 11 of the text book. When you unzip the file, you will find several folder containing successively more complex examples of  GUI building.

Start with the simplest imageviewer0-1 and work your way through the code line by line making sure that you understand each step. If there is a class of method that you are not familiar with, look it up in the Java API documentation. If you still can’t work it out, ask you tutor. Try running the project. Look at the output and, if you are not sure how the program works, try using the debugger to trace the execution of the program.

Once you’ve understood the first program, work you way through the others. The later ones are quite complex, so don’t be too concerned if you don’t understand everything in them. You won’t get through all of them in this tutorial.