Usage of awt components

[Stan Griffith]

Hi Ranchers,

My assignement has the following statement.

The user interface for this assignment must satisfy the following criteria:

It must be composed exclusively with components from the Java Foundation Classes (Swing components).

Does this mean that I can not use awt features like Font, Color? Infact all the layouts are from awt package.

Thanks

Stan

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Hi Stan,

That instruction means that you cannot use any component from the AWT package for which there is a replacement in the Swing package. So you cannot use a Button since there is a JButton component.

Does this mean that I can not use awt features like Font, Color? Infact all the layouts are from awt package.

Yes, they are all from the java.awt package, but none of them are java.awt.Components.

Personally I suspect that the prohibition on using ant AWT Component was suggested at the time that the SCJP exam required candidates to know what was a java.awt.Component and what wasnt (boy, wasn't that fun :roll: ). Since candidates who passed SCJP 1.4 or SCJP 1.5 no longer need to know that class heirachy, the restriction on using ant AWT Component(s) only seems to confuse people. In fact, I am adding this to the FAQ now ...

Regards, Andrew

[Stan Griffith]

Thanks for the reply Andrew. I take it that it is ok to use classes like Font, Color and layouts like FlowLayout and BorderLayout.

regards

Stan