Chapter 18. Handling Events
In this chapter you'll learn how a window-based Java application is structured and how to respond to user actions in an application or an applet. This is the fundamental mechanism you'll be using in virtually all of your graphical Java programs. Once you understand how user actions are handled in Java, you'll be equipped to implement the application-specific code that is necessary to make your program do what you want.
You will learn:
What an event is
What an event-driven program is and how it is structured
How events are handled in Java
How events are categorized in Java
How components handle events
What an event listener is and how you create one
What an adapter class is and how you can use it to make programming the handling of events easier
What actions are and how you use them
How to create a toolbar
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