Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures (3rd Edition)
Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures (3rd Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134038179
Author: Tony Gaddis, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12.2, Problem 12.8CP
Program Plan Intro

Event handling in java:

  • An event is the change in state of an object or source. The objects are buttons, textbox and so on.
  • Event handling is the mechanism which controls an event and decides what should happen if an event occurs.
  • That is if a button is clicked, its state will change to clicked. And this will decide by the event handling. Here click is the event happened to the button. The event handling will decide what should happen if a button is clicked.

Event listener:

  • Event handler is also known as event listener. The event listener generates response to the event on an object.
  • The interfaces responsible for handling events are represent an Event listener.
  • Java provides several Event listener interfaces. Every methods of event listener have a single argument.
  • Some of the Event listener interfaces are given below,
ControlDescription
ActionListenerThis interface receives the action events.
ItemListenerThis interface receives the item events.
ComponentListenerThis interface receives component events
KeylistenerThis interface receives key events.
TextListenerThis interface receives text events.
WindowlistenerThis interface receives the window events
FocusListenerThis interface receives the focus events

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