08-1 Example: Mouse Clicks Example: Pause/Resume Buttons public - PDF document

Overview • Topics • Event-driven programming • Events in Java CSE 143 Java • Event Listeners • Event Adapters • Threads Events, Event Handlers, and Threads • Inner Classes • Reading: (slides not used in lecture 02au) • Textbook: Ch. 19 & 20, particularly sec. 19.4 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-1 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-2 Classic Data Processing Event-Driven Programming • Input specified as part of the program design • Idea: program initializes itself then accepts events in whatever random order they occur • Example: process bank account deposits • Kinds of events Repeated set of transactions • Mouse move/drag/click, Keyboard, Touch screen, Joystick, game controller Each transaction consists of a deposit slip (transaction header) followed by 1 or more checks to be deposited to the account • Window resized or components changed • Program expects input in required order • Activity over network or file stream • Timer interrupt • Program structure mirrors input organization (can still think of this as processing an “input stream”, but point of view is basically while (more input) { different) read and process transaction header • First demonstrated in the 1960s(!); major developments at Xerox read and process individual checks PARC in the 1970s (Alto workstation, Smalltalk) } • Available outside research community with Apple Macintosh (1984) 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-3 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-4 Java Events Event Listeners • An event is represented by an event object • Basic idea: any object that is interested in an event registers itself with the component that can generate the event • AWT/Swing events are subclasses of AWTEvent. Some examples: ActionEvent – button pressed • The object must implement the appropriate Interface KeyEvent – keyboard input • ActionListener, KeyListener, MouseListener (buttons), MouseMotionListener MouseEvent – mouse move/drag/click/button press or release (move/drag), others … • All user interface components generate events when appropriate • When the event occurs, the appropriate method of the object is called • Event objects contain information about the event • actionPerformed, keyPressed, keyReleased, keyTyped, mouseClicked, • User interface object that triggered the event MouseDragged, etc. etc. etc. • Other information appropriate for the event. Examples: Reminder – because these are part of an Interface, you can't change their signatures. ActionEvent – contents of button text generating event (if from a button) • An event object describing the event is a parameter to the receiving method MouseEvent – mouse coordinates of the event • All in java.util.event – need to import this to handle events 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-5 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-6 08-1

Example: Mouse Clicks Example: Pause/Resume Buttons public class Mouser extends JPanel implements MouseListener { • Idea: add a pair of buttons to the graphical view of the ball /** Constructor – register this object to listen for mouse events */ simulator to control the simulation Mouser( ) { • First, rearrange the code to create an extended Jframe super( ); named BallSimControl that contains the JPanel with the addMouseListener(this); } bouncing balls plus the pause/resume buttons /** Process mouse click */ public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) { System.out.println(“mouse click at x = ” + e.getX( ) + “ y = “ e.getY( )); } • Also need to implement the other events in MouseListener 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-7 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-8 Button/View Layout Handling Button Clicks • In the constructor for BallSimControl • Who should handle the pause/resume button clicks? Container cp = getContentPane( ); • Not the SimModel object – shouldn’t know about views BallGraphicsView viewPane = new BallGraphicsView( ) • But need to catch the event and then call methods in the SimModel cp.add(viewPane, BorderLayout.CENTER); to carry out the pause/resume JButton pause = new JButton(“pause”); • One solution: create a listener object JButton resume = new JButton(“resume”); • New class: SimButtonListener JPanel buttons = new JPanel( ); buttons.add(pause); • Code in BallSimControl buttons.add(resume); SimButtonListener listener = new SimButtonListener(simWorld); cp.add(buttons, BorderLayout.SOUTH); pause.addActionListener(listener); resume.addActionListener(listener); 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-9 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-10 Listener Object Question: Which Button was Pressed? public class SimButtonListener implements ActionListener { • Several possible answers – here’s one // instance variables • Quick & dirty – get the button text from the event object SimModel world; // the SimModel we are controlling /** Process button clicks by turning the simulation on and off */ /** Constructor for objects of class SimButton */ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { public SimButtonListener(SimModel world) { if (e.getActionCommand( ).equals("pause")) { this.world = world; world.pause( ); } } else if (e.getActionCommand( ).equals("resume")) { world.resume( ); /** Process button clicks by turning the simulation on and off */ } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { } ??? • Not terribly portable – what if you wanted to translate the user } interface to Chinese? – but good enough for now } 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-11 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-12 08-2

Event Adapter Classes Threads and The AWT Event Thread • Interfaces like MouseListener and WindowListener contain • Java supports "threads": apparently concurrently executing many methods; often we only are interested in one or two streams of instructions. • Alternative to implementing the interface and having to • User programs have at least one thread running provide empty implementations for uninteresting methods – • Not hard to create additional threads adaptor classes • Can be tricky to coordinate multiple threads • Java.awt.event includes an abstract class with empty • The Java system has several threads running all the time implementations of all required methods for each of the • One important system thread: the AWT event dispatcher event listener interfaces • All AWT/Swing event handlers execute in this thread KeyAdapter (for KeyListener), MouseAdapter (for MouseListener), • Consequence: your event handlers may be running WindowAdapter (for WindowListener), etc. simultaneously with your application code • Extend and override only what you need to create a listener object 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-13 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-14 Example: Add Balls on Mouse Click Towards a Solution: Inner Classes • Would like to create a listener that does something like this: • Java 1.1 and later allows classes to be nested • Inner classes define a new scope nested in the containing class class BallClickListener extends MouseAdapter { • Inner classes can access instances variables and methods of the containing class public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) { • Inner classes can be public, protected, or private if (model != null) { • Example: Point2D model.add(randomBall(e.getX( ), e.getY( ))); } • has two inner classes, named Float and Double } • Are public, so can be used outside of class Point2D, as Point2D.Float and Point2D.Double } • Inner classes in event handling • Listener needs to know about the model, etc. • A class like class BallClickListener extends MouseAdapter {...} can be a private • We really don’t want another top-level class; what we’d like is a inner class: is only needed once, and only inside the containing class class definition nested inside BallGraphicsView, with access to instance variables, particularly the model object we’re controlling 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-15 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-16 Solution: Anonymous Inner Classes Example: Constructor for Graphics View public BallGraphicsView( ) { • For the mouse listener, all we need to do is create one super( ); instance of the inner class and add it as a mouse listener // Create inner class instance to listen for mouse clicks • Doesn’t really need a name(!) this.addMouseListener ( • Solution: create one instance of an anonymous inner class new MouseAdapter( ) { // anon inner class extending MouseAdapter public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) { • Warning!!! Ghastly syntax ahead. Here’s how to create a if (model != null) { new object of an anonymous inner class model.add(randomBall(e.getX( ), e.getY( ))); new <classname> ( <constructor parameters> ) { <method overrides> } //end overriden method mouseClicked } } } //end anon class extending MouseAdapter ); } //end method BallGraphicsView 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-17 12/16/2002 (c) 2001, University of Washington 08-18 08-3