Computer Science 523
Advanced Programming

Summer 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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In this lab, your task is to become more familiar with the Java Swing graphical user interface components. You can write any program with a graphical user interface, subject to some constraints outlined below.

You may work alone or in a group of 2 or 3 on this lab. Only one submission per group is needed.

Getting Set Up

To get your BlueJ environment set up for this week's lab assignment, start BlueJ and choose "New Project" from the "Project" menu. Navigate to your folder for this course and choose the name "Lab6" (no spaces) for the project.

Programming Assignment

Your task is to write a program to complete a task of your choice that uses the Java Swing GUI. The complexity level does not need to be excessive, but it should demonstrate your understanding of the Swing components, layouts of those components within the window, and event handling. The level of difficulty should lie somewhere between the early Swing examples, which are nearly trivial now, and the "Five Guys" example, which would be more complicated than necessary here.

Your program may be a JApplet along the lines of the class examples, or you can use the JFrame-based GUIs as shown in Gaddis.

The minimum requirements:

• Your program should use at least four different Swing components, including at least one that was not used in the examples before "Five Guys". The default Container (the "content pane") and JPanels do not count toward this quota.
• Your program should have at least two components that trigger listener events that are handled appropriately by listener method(s) you define.
• Some part of the window should use a layout other than the standard BorderLayout or a JPanel's default FlowLayout.

Submitting

Before 11:59 PM, Sunday, July 13, 2014, submit your lab for grading. To complete the submission, upload a copy of your lab (a .7z or .zip file containing your project directory) using Submission Box under assignment "Lab6".

Grading

This assignment is worth 70 points, which are distributed as follows: