The Building Blocks

Table of contents

The Building Blocks

Organization of Java Programs

A Simple Applet --- Digital Clock

The Applet Methods

The Life-Cycle of An Applet

Fields and Initialization

The start() and stop() Methods

The run() Method

The paint() Method

Who Calls run() And paint()?

Drawing Strings

HTML Source

The Blinking Text Applet

The Blinking Text Applet (cont'd)

Blinking Text --- paint() Method

Blinking Text --- paint() Method (cont'd)

Blinking Text --- paint() Method (cont'd)

The java.awt.Color Class

The java.awt.Font Class

Java Data Types

Reference Type and Garbage Collection

Java Character Type

Java Arrays

Java String

Class Declaration

Class Modifiers

Method And Field Declaration

Method and Field Modifiers

Accessibility of Class Members.

Class Declaration Example

Explicit Initializer

Constructors

Variable, Object, Class, Type

Object Reference: this

Static Variables

Static Methods

Invoking Methods

final Variables

The toString() Method

Author: Xiaoping Jia

E-mail: jia@cti.depaul.edu

Homepage: http://www.depaul.edu/~xjia

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