Programming the AWT - Layout
Managers, Components, and
Containers

By: Peter Haggar


Abstract

Learn more about the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in JDK 1.1. This presentation provides a brief overview of the AWT and then focuses on layout managers and containers. The presentation examines different AWT-provided layout managers, provides program examples for each layout manager, and shows how to create custom layout managers. The sample source code for this presentation is provided in a zip file that you can download.

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About the author: Peter Haggar is an Advisory Software Engineer with IBM in the Network Computing Software Division in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Peter currently works in the Java Technology and Strategy group and has shared responsibility for the IBM Java technical strategy. In addition, Peter is a member of the Java Client Design Council focusing on client technology and strategy. Peter has worked for IBM since 1987 and has been working with graphical user interface design and implementation since 1989 and object-oriented (OO) development and technology since 1991. For the past eight years, Peter has worked on multiple OO and GUI development projects. For four years, he worked on the IBM OpenClass C++ class libraries for the VisualAge for C++ product. Before that he worked on many GUI controls for OS/2. Peter received a B.S. in Computer Science from Clarkson University in New York in 1987. Peter can be contacted at haggar@us.ibm.com.



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