Transcript Chapter 5 Patterns and GUI Programming

Chapter 5
Patterns and GUI Programming
-Part 2-
STRATEGY Pattern
Layout Managers
 What if we need to specifies pixel position of
components when
 User interfaces are made up of use interface
components
 Components are placed in containers
 Swing doesn't use hard-coded pixel coordinates
for each component.
 Advantages:
• Can switch between various "look and feel"
• Can internationalize strings
 Layout manager arranges the components in a
container.
STRATEGY Pattern
Layout Managers
 FlowLayout: left to right, start new row when full
 BoxLayout: left to right or top to bottom
 BorderLayout: 5 areas, Center, North, South,
East, West
 GridLayout: grid, all components have same size
 GridBagLayout: the rows & columns can have
different sizes and components can span
multiple rows and columns
STRATEGY Pattern
Layout Managers
STRATEGY Pattern
Layout Managers
Panel
 Set layout manager
JPanel keyPanel = new JPanel();
keyPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 3));
 Add components
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
{
keyPanel.add(button[i]);
} //end for
STRATEGY Pattern
Layout Managers
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Voice Mail System GUI
Same backend as text-based system
Only Telephone class changes
Buttons for keypad
Text areas for microphone, speaker
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Voice Mail System GUI
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Voice Mail System GUI
 Panel with BorderLayout for speaker
JPanel speakerPanel = new JPanel();
speakerPanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
speakerPanel.add(new JLabel("Speaker:"), BorderLayout.NORTH);
speakerField = new JTextArea(10, 25);
speakerPanel.add(speakerField, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 Laying out the microphone Component
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Voice Mail System GUI
Arrange keys in panel with GridLayout:
JPanel keyPanel = new JPanel();
keyPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 3));
for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
{
JButton keyButton = new JButton(...);
keyPanel.add(keyButton);
keyButton.addActionListener(...);
}
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Voice Mail System GUI
 Put speaker, keypads,
and microphone panel
into content pane
 Content pane already
has BorderLayout
 Ch5/mailgui/Telephone.java
STRATEGY Pattern
(Ex) Custom Layout Manager
 Odd-numbered components right aligned
 Even-numbered components left aligned
 Implement LayoutManager interface type
STRATEGY Pattern
The LayoutManager Interface Type
public interface LayoutManager
{
Dimension minimumLayoutSize(Container parent);
Dimension preferredLayoutSize(Container parent);
void layoutContainer(Container parent);
void addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp);
void removeLayoutComponent(Component comp);
}
STRATEGY Pattern
Form Layout
 Ch5/layout/FormLayout.java
 Ch5/layout/FormLayoutTester.java
STRATEGY Pattern
The STRATEGY pattern teaches how to
supply variants of an algorithm
Other manifestation: Comparators
Comparator comp = new CountryComparatorByName();
Collections.sort(countries, comp);
STRATEGY Pattern
 Context
1. A class (called context class) can benefit from different variants
for an algorithm
2. Clients of the context class sometimes want to supply custom
versions of the algorithm
 Solution
1. Define an interface type that is an abstraction for the algorithm.
We’ll call this interface type the strategy.
2. Concrete strategy classes implement the strategy interface
type. Each strategy class implements a version of the algorithm.
3. The client supplies a concrete strategy object to the context
class.
4. Whenever the algorithm needs to be executed, the context
class calls the appropriate methods of the strategy object.
STRATEGY Pattern
STRATEGY Pattern
Name in Design Pattern
Actual Name
Context
Strategy
Container
LayoutManager
ConcreteStrategy
A layout manager such as
BolderLayout
doWork()
A method of the
LayoutManager interface type
such as layoutContainer