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AWT HowTo

• General
  • Use the CardLayout manager
  • Detect which card is visible with a CardLayout
  • Use Popups
  • Use a File Dialog
  • Use TrueType font
  • Display available fonts
  • Font with 3D effect
  • Use the System Clipboard
• Frame, Window, Dialog
  • Maximize a Frame
  • Center a Frame/Dialog
  • Close a Frame
  • Call events on a Frame from a Panel
  • Set the small top-left icon on a Frame
  • Prevent a Frame to be resized
  • Embed an image into a Frame
  • Display a message box
  • Display a Splash screen
  • Vibrate a Window
• TextField
  • Limit TextField input to numeric value
  • Limit TextField input to a maximum length
  • React to the ENTER key in a Textfield
  • Make the ENTER key act like the TAB key
  • Reset all textfields in one shot
  • Limit a TextField to Uppercase
• Widget
  • Have an ImageButton
  • Reset a checkbox group
  • Set the listbox width
  • Align the column in a List
  • Have a srolling text display using a List
  • Label dynamic resizing
  • Make a TextArea "word-wrap"
  • Synchronize a TextArea versus a Choice
  • Display underlined text
  • Display vertical text
  • Have Label with many lines
  • Have a Label with underlined text
  • Have a Label acting as HTML HREF (URLLabel)
• Image, Graphic
  • Display a GIF in a Canvas
  • Embed an image into a Frame
  • Load several images from a single GIF
  • Load an Image from a JAR file
  • Load an Image from a JAR file (again)
  • Scale an Image
  • Fade an image
  • Rotate an image
  • Create a scrollable canvas
  • Use an Image as the Applet background
  • Have a simple Image browser
  • Simulate a "mouse over" event to toggle an image
  • Hide the mouse cursor
  • Make a color transparent
  • Save an Image as a GIF or JPEG file
  • Use the same background color as the browser
  • Do simple animation using Images
  • Do simple animation to show "work in progress"
  • Get the color of a specific pixel
  • Do "rubber-band" drawing
  • Convert RGB value to Hex (to be used in HTML)
  • Draw a line or set a pixel in my own image
  • Draw dashed line
  • Draw a line with a thickness
  • Draw a pie chart
  • Draw faster rectangles
  • Get a screen capture and save it as a JPEG
• Event
  • Detect a double click versus a simple click
  • Detect the mouse button used when clicking
  • Exit an application from a menu (single exit point)
  • Trigger a click on a Button
• TIF
  • Display a TIF
  • Convert a multi-page TIF into single-page TIF
  • Convert many single-page TIF into one multi-page TIF
  • Convert an Image to a BufferedImage
  • Detect if a TIF is blank
  • Convert TIF to PDF
  • Convert TIF to JPG

AWT HowTo

Written and compiled by Réal Gagnon ©1998-2013
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