CHAPTER 56 — JFrame

A JFrame represents the window of a GUI application program. It can hold the components and methods that your application needs. This chapter introduces these ideas.

Chapter Topics:

• The JFrame class.
• Methods:
  • The setSize() method.
  • The setBounds() method.
  • The setVisible() method.
  • The setDefaultCloseOperation() method.
• Extending the JFrame class
• The JLabel class.

It may be helpful at times to refer back to the class hierarchy diagrams of the previous chapter.