Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition) Day 9: Working with Swing

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Notes and Corrections

• View the Certification Practice quiz solution

• Certification answer: Answer (b) is correct. Without a default close operation such as JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE, the Display application will never stop running after the frame is closed[md]you must hit CTRL-C to terminate the program.

  Answer (a) is incorrect. The frame displays properly even if its size is not explicitly set. The call to the pack() statement in its constructor method sets the size based on the size of the JLabel component inside the frame.

  Answer (c) is incorrect. Calling the frame's constructor method inside the constructor method causes a stack overflow error when the program runs.

  Answer (d) is incorrect because (b) is correct.

Source Files

• Authenticator.class
• Authenticator.java
• Authenticator2.class
• Authenticator2.java
• ButtonFrame.class
• ButtonFrame.java
• FormatFrame.class
• FormatFrame.java
• FormatFrame2.class
• FormatFrame2.java
• IconFrame.class
• IconFrame.java
• LibraryPath.class
• LibraryPath.java
• Password.class
• Password.java
• PasswordFrame.class
• SimpleFrame.class
• SimpleFrame.java
• SimpleWindow.class
• SimpleWindow.java
• Subscriptions.class
• Subscriptions.java
• VCR.class
• VCR.java
• lighthouse.jpg
• load.gif
• save.gif
• subscribe.gif
• unsubscribe.gif

Activities

• Solution 1: VCR.java and VCR.class.
• Solution 2: Password.java and Password.class.