Event handling in java

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An event is a change in the state of an object or its behavior caused by actions such as clicking a button, moving the cursor, pressing a key on the keyboard, and scrolling the page. Events are divided into two categories: foreground events and background events. Event handling is a system that manages events and defines what should happen when an event occurs. Java follows a delegated event model for event handling. Listener Interfaces: • ActionListener • AdjustmentListener • ComponentListener • ContainerListener • ItemListener • KeyListener • FocusListener • MouseListener • MouseWheelListener • TextListener • WindowListener Java Event Handling Code Approaches: • Within Class • Other Class • Anonymous Class The following section contains various Java programs on Event Handling like delegation event models, frames, graphics, AWT components, and font classes. It also contains Event Handling programs on AWT components such as buttons, checkboxes, text fields, menu bars, menus, combo boxes, scroll bars, and lists. Each sample program includes a program description, Java code, and program output. All examples have been compiled and tested on Windows and Linux systems. 2. Java Programs on Handling Check Boxes & TextField Program Description Java Program to Get and Set State and Get Label of a Check Box Java Program to Create Check Boxes and Radio Buttons Java Program to Display Some Text in the Frame using Labels Java Program to Create Text Area and Password Field 4. Java Progr...

The EventHandler class provides support for dynamically generating event listeners whose methods execute a simple statement involving an incoming event object and a target object. The EventHandler class is intended to be used by interactive tools, such as application builders, that allow developers to make connections between beans. Typically connections are made from a user interface bean (the event source) to an application logic bean (the target). The most effective connections of this kind isolate the application logic from the user interface. For example, the EventHandler for a connection from a JCheckBox to a method that accepts a boolean value can deal with extracting the state of the check box and passing it directly to the method so that the method is isolated from the user interface layer. Inner classes are another, more general way to handle events from user interfaces. The EventHandler class handles only a subset of what is possible using inner classes. However, EventHandler works better with the long-term persistence scheme than inner classes. Also, using EventHandler in large applications in which the same interface is implemented many times can reduce the disk and memory footprint of the application. The reason that listeners created with EventHandler have such a small footprint is that the Proxy class, on which the EventHandler relies, shares implementations of identical interfaces. For example, if you use the EventHandler create methods to make all the Act...

I am .Net developer. i want to know that is there any event handling mechanism in Java for Events Handling like C#. what i want to do is i want to raise/fire an event form my class upon some condition. and consumer of this class should register that event and write event handling method. this can be done easily in C#. i have to implement this thing in Java. after googling out i found some links but all those are talking about GUI events in AWT and swing. can any one help me out. Although most of the examples will be to do with GUI events, the principles are basically the same. You basically want an interface or abstract class to represent a handler for the event, e.g. public interface EventHandler then the publisher of the event would have: public void addEventHandler(EventHandler handler) public void removeEventHandler(EventHandler handler) It would either keep a list of event handlers itself, or possibly have them encapsulated in a reusable type. Then when the event occurs, you just call handleEvent in each handler in turn. You can think of delegate types in C# as being very similar to single-method interfaces in Java, and events are really just an add/remove pair of methods. @Sisir: The interface was always meant to serve as the delegate. The methods on the event publisher ( addEventHandler and removeEventHandler) are the event part. They could use a List internally, for example. But really at this point it would be best if you could ask a new question, showing how far...

In general terms of java, there are listeners & handlers for events. I mean I use them unknowingly, just whichever is available in the API. My question is, in what case do we use listeners and in what case do we use handlers for events? What's the difference between them? Characteristics?? I've searched for reasons and I couldn't find a proper explanation for Java. There's no formally defined difference between listeners and handlers. Some people would probably argue that they are interchangeable. To me however, they have slightly different meaning. A listener is an object that subscribes for events from a source. Cf. the added through addXyzListener methods. Example: The MouseListener in the Java API. A handler is an object that is responsible for handling certain events. A typical scenario would be to provide a handler for a specific event/task as an argument to a constructor, or set the handler through a setXyzHandler method. In other words, you usually have one handler for each type of event. Example: The MemoryHandler in the Java API. The most basic difference is the association • Listener is associated with Event Source (Ex: key board) • Handler is associated with an Event (Ex: keydown) Generally speaking, there will only one central Handler Manager which manages all the events, while in case of Listener each Entity which wants to listen, will have to manage their own Collection of listeners This is the way I see it: A listener watches for an event to be fired. For e...