Program to demonstrate how to apply event handling mechanism to JCheckBox Swing Components :
package com.hubberspot.awtSwing.example;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class CheckBoxItemListener implements ItemListener
{
JFrame frame;
JCheckBox checkBoxArray[] = new JCheckBox[3];
JTextField textField;
JLabel label;
JPanel panel;
CheckBoxItemListener()
{
frame = new JFrame("JCheckBox Event Handling");
frame.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,1));
panel = new JPanel();
checkBoxArray[0] = new JCheckBox("Java");
checkBoxArray[1] = new JCheckBox("C++");
checkBoxArray[2] = new JCheckBox("C");
for(int i = 0; i<3; i++)
{
panel.add(checkBoxArray[i]);
checkBoxArray[i].addItemListener(this);
}
textField = new JTextField(20);
label = new JLabel("Select the Programming " +
"Language you have used : ", JLabel.CENTER);
frame.add(label);
frame.add(panel);
frame.add(textField);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent ie)
{
String message="You have used: ";
for(int i=0; i<3; i++)
{
if(checkBoxArray[i].isSelected())
message += checkBoxArray[i].getText() + " ";
}
textField.setText(message);
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new CheckBoxItemListener();
}
}
Output of the program :
