Re: Imitating a JFrame extended program with JPanel; help needed...

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:16:55 -0500
Message-ID:
<hlca3o$cq7$1@news.albasani.net>
Amr wrote:

the program somewhat working now after making some changes from the
given suggestion.

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import net.miginfocom.swing.MigLayout;

public class AL2 extends JFrame implements ActionListener{

    JTextField countText=new JTextField(20);


Why do you use package-private (a.k.a. "default") access instead of private?

    JButton button=new JButton("Click to increment");
    private int numClicks=0;


Initialization of a member variable to zero is redundant, causing zero to be
assigned to it twice. (The same holds true of initialization of a reference
member to 'null'.) The performance impact is negligible, though, and some
will argue that the explicit initialization is useful for code maintainers.

    public AL2(){

        super();


The explicit invocation of the no-argument 'super()' constructor is completely
unnecessary.

        themes();

// Dimension
d=java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
// setSize(d);
        JPanel pane=new JPanel(new MigLayout("Wrap 1"));
        button.addActionListener(this);
        pane.add(countText);
        pane.add(button);
        add(pane);

        setVisible(true);
        pack();


The call to 'pack()' should come before the call to 'setVisible()'.

    }

    public void themes(){
 
try{UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
        SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);}catch (Exception e)
{
            System.out.println("errror in applying the theme");
        }
    }


Please use conventional indentation to keep your code readable.

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        numClicks++;
        countText.setText("Button CLicked"+numClicks+"Times");
    }

    public static void main(String arg[]){
        AL2 a=new AL2();
    }
}


You continue to perform GUI operations not on the EDT. This is dangerous and
will lead to weird bugs. Several folks have mentioned this to you.

PS: is there any way in this group that each and every mail lands in
my email box, so that i [sic] can reply from there itself without coming to
the webpage?


No. This is a newsgroup, not a web page. The posts are not emails, but
newsgroup posts. It's like the difference between a paper letter that you
send via the post office, and an index card announcement that you post on a
community bulletin board.

Don't use a web interface, use a newsreader instead. markspace mentioned
Mozilla Thunderbird, a decent one although not necessarily the best.

You will need access to a news server if you use a newsreader.

--
Lew

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