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The JButton Class

 Swing Buttons are subclass of the

AbstractButton.

 The JButton class provides the functionality

of a push button.

 JButton allows an icon, a String, or both to be

associated with the push button.

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 The JButton Class

 Constructors

 JButton(Icon i)
 JButton(String s)
 JButton(String s, Icon i)

Here s, and i are the String and Icon used for the
Button.

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 JButton

 Create an ImageIcon by passing the

ImageIcon
 constructor a String representing a GIF or
JPG file
 (animated GIFs are supported!)
 Pass the ImageIcon to the JButton
constructor

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 JButton

 New features: icons, alignment, mnemonics

 Alignment: location of image with respect to

text

 Mnemonics: keyboard accelerators that let

you use AltsomeChar to trigger the button

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 Example

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class ButtonSample {
public static void main(String args[]) {
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Runnable runner = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Button Sample");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
JButton button = new JButton("Select Me");
// Define ActionListener
ActionListener actionListener = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent) {
System.out.println("I was selected.");
}
};

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// Attach listeners
button.addActionListener(actionListener);
frame.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
frame.setSize(300, 100);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
};
EventQueue.invokeLater(runner);
}
}

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 Output

I was selected

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 Example 2
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class JButtons extends JFrame {
public static void main(String[] args) {
new JButtons();
}
public JButtons() {
super("Using JButton");
WindowUtilities.setNativeLookAndFeel();
addWindowListener(new ExitListener());
Container content = getContentPane();
content.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

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JButton button1 = new JButton("Java");
content.add(button1);
ImageIcon cup = new ImageIcon("images/cup.gif");
JButton button2 = new JButton(cup);
content.add(button2);
JButton button3 = new JButton("Java", cup);
content.add(button3);
JButton button4 = new JButton("Java", cup);
button4.setHorizontalTextPosition
(SwingConstants.LEFT);
content.add(button4);
pack();
setVisible(true);
}
}

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