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| 30 | Contains all of the classes for creating user |
| 31 | interfaces and for painting graphics and images. A user interface object such as a button or a |
| 32 | scrollbar is called, in AWT terminology, a component. The Component class is the root of all |
| 33 | AWT components. See Component for a detailed description of properties that all AWT |
| 34 | components share. |
| 35 | <p> |
| 36 | Some components fire events when a user interacts with the components. The AWTEvent |
| 37 | class and its subclasses are used to represent the events that AWT components can fire. See |
| 38 | AWTEvent for a description of the AWT event model. |
| 39 | <p> |
| 40 | A container is a component that can contain components and other containers. A con |
| 41 | tainer can also have a layout manager that controls the visual placement of components in the |
| 42 | container. The AWT package contains several layout manager classes and an interface for |
| 43 | building your own layout manager. See Container and LayoutManager for more information. |
| 44 | <p> |
| 45 | Each {@code Component} object is limited in its maximum size and |
| 46 | its location because the values are stored as an integer. |
| 47 | Also, a platform may further restrict maximum size and location |
| 48 | coordinates. The exact maximum values are dependent on the platform. |
| 49 | There is no way to change these maximum values, either in Java |
| 50 | code or in native code. |
| 51 | These limitations also impose restrictions on component layout. |
| 52 | If the bounds of a Component object exceed a platform limit, |
| 53 | there is no way to properly arrange them within a Container object. |
| 54 | The object's bounds are defined by any object's coordinate |
| 55 | in combination with its size on a respective axis. |
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| 57 | |
| 58 | <h2>Additional Specification</h2> |
| 59 | <ul> |
| 60 | <li><a href="doc-files/FocusSpec.html">The AWT Focus Subsystem</a> |
| 61 | <li><a href="doc-files/Modality.html">The AWT Modality</a> |
| 62 | </ul> |
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| 80 | @since JDK1.0 |
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