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453 Event Listener Interface

The document explains Java Event Handling, detailing event sources and listener interfaces found in the java.awt.event package. It outlines steps for event handling, including registering components with listeners and implementing the ActionListener interface. An example code snippet demonstrates how to create a simple event handling application using a button and a text field.

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453 Event Listener Interface

The document explains Java Event Handling, detailing event sources and listener interfaces found in the java.awt.event package. It outlines steps for event handling, including registering components with listeners and implementing the ActionListener interface. An example code snippet demonstrates how to create a simple event handling application using a button and a text field.

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Event Listener interfaces (Java Event

Handling)
Changing the state of an object is known as an event. For example, click
on button, dragging mouse etc. The event delegation model contains two
main components. First are the event sources and second are the listeners.
Most of the listener interfaces are available in the java.awt.event package.
which are listed below:

Java Event classes and Listener interfaces


Event Classes Listener Interfaces

ActionEvent ActionListener

MouseEvent MouseListener and MouseMotionListener

MouseWheelEvent MouseWheelListener

KeyEvent KeyListener

ItemEvent ItemListener

TextEvent TextListener

AdjustmentEvent AdjustmentListener

WindowEvent WindowListener

ComponentEvent ComponentListener
ContainerEvent ContainerListener

FocusEvent FocusListener

Steps to perform Event Handling


Following steps are required to perform event handling:

1. Register the component with the Listener

1.Registration Methods
For registering the component with the Listener, many classes provide the registration
methods. For example:

o Button
o public void addActionListener(ActionListener a){}
o MenuItem
o public void addActionListener(ActionListener a){}
o TextField
o public void addActionListener(ActionListener a){}
o public void addTextListener(TextListener a){}
o TextArea
o public void addTextListener(TextListener a){}
o Checkbox
o public void addItemListener(ItemListener a){}
o Choice
o public void addItemListener(ItemListener a){}

2.Java event handling by implementing ActionListener

We can put the event handling code into one of the following places:
1. Within class
2. Other class
3. Anonymous class

Following is an example where we written code for event handling withen

1. import java.awt.*;
2. import java.awt.event.*;
3. class AEvent extends Frame implements ActionListener{
4. TextField tf;
5. AEvent(){
6.
7. //create components
8. tf=new TextField();
9. tf.setBounds(60,50,170,20);
10. Button b=new Button("click me");
11. b.setBounds(100,120,80,30);
12.
13. //register listener
14. b.addActionListener(this);//passing current instance
15.
16. //add components and set size, layout and visibility
17. add(b);add(tf);
18. setSize(300,300);
19. setLayout(null);
20. setVisible(true);
21. }
22. public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
23. tf.setText("Welcome");
24. }
25. public static void main(String args[]){
26. new AEvent();
27. }
28. }

public void setBounds(int xaxis, int yaxis, int width, int height); have been used in
the above example that sets the position of the component it may be button, textfield etc.

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