CHAPTER 61 — GUI Applications

This chapter develops two applications that are just on the fringe of being useful. Along the way, it discusses several additional topics in Swing programming.

Chapter Topics:

• Example: Temperature conversion application
• Obtaining numeric values from JTextFields
• The Integer.parseInt() method
• Writing results into JTextFields
• ActionListener for a JTextField
• Example: Calories from fat calculation
• Using a JButton with JTextField input
• The Double.parseDouble() method
• Finding the right size for a frame