Handle Container Event

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/*/*from  ww  w .j  a  v  a 2 s  .  c  o m*/
 * ContainerEventDemo.java requires no other files.
 */

import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.GridBagConstraints;

import java.awt.event.ContainerEvent;
import java.awt.event.ContainerListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import java.util.Vector;

public class ContainerEventDemo extends JPanel implements
        ContainerListener, ActionListener {
    JTextArea display;
    JPanel buttonPanel;
    JButton addButton, removeButton, clearButton;
    Vector<JButton> buttonList;
    static final String ADD = "add";
    static final String REMOVE = "remove";
    static final String CLEAR = "clear";
    static final String newline = "\n";

    public ContainerEventDemo() {
        super(new GridBagLayout());
        GridBagLayout gridbag = (GridBagLayout) getLayout();
        GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();

        //Initialize an empty list of buttons.
        buttonList = new Vector<JButton>(10, 10);

        //Create all the components.
        addButton = new JButton("Add a button");
        addButton.setActionCommand(ADD);
        addButton.addActionListener(this);

        removeButton = new JButton("Remove a button");
        removeButton.setActionCommand(REMOVE);
        removeButton.addActionListener(this);

        buttonPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 1));
        buttonPanel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 75));
        buttonPanel.addContainerListener(this);

        display = new JTextArea();
        display.setEditable(false);
        JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(display);
        scrollPane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 75));

        clearButton = new JButton("Clear text area");
        clearButton.setActionCommand(CLEAR);
        clearButton.addActionListener(this);

        c.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH; //Fill entire cell.
        c.weighty = 1.0; //Button area and message area have equal height.
        c.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER; //end of row
        gridbag.setConstraints(scrollPane, c);
        add(scrollPane);

        c.weighty = 0.0;
        gridbag.setConstraints(clearButton, c);
        add(clearButton);

        c.weightx = 1.0; //Add/remove buttons have equal width.
        c.gridwidth = 1; //NOT end of row
        gridbag.setConstraints(addButton, c);
        add(addButton);

        c.gridwidth = GridBagConstraints.REMAINDER; //end of row
        gridbag.setConstraints(removeButton, c);
        add(removeButton);

        c.weighty = 1.0; //Button area and message area have equal height.
        gridbag.setConstraints(buttonPanel, c);
        add(buttonPanel);

        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 400));
        setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(20, 20, 20, 20));
    }

    public void componentAdded(ContainerEvent e) {
        displayMessage(" added to ", e);
    }

    public void componentRemoved(ContainerEvent e) {
        displayMessage(" removed from ", e);
    }

    void displayMessage(String action, ContainerEvent e) {
        display.append(((JButton) e.getChild()).getText() + " was" + action
                + e.getContainer().getClass().getName() + newline);
        display.setCaretPosition(display.getDocument().getLength());
    }

    /*
     * This could have been implemented as two or three
     * classes or objects, for clarity.
     */
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        String command = e.getActionCommand();

        if (ADD.equals(command)) {
            JButton newButton = new JButton("JButton #"
                    + (buttonList.size() + 1));
            buttonList.addElement(newButton);
            buttonPanel.add(newButton);
            buttonPanel.revalidate(); //Make the button show up.

        } else if (REMOVE.equals(command)) {
            int lastIndex = buttonList.size() - 1;
            try {
                JButton nixedButton = buttonList.elementAt(lastIndex);
                buttonPanel.remove(nixedButton);
                buttonList.removeElementAt(lastIndex);
                buttonPanel.revalidate(); //Make the button disappear.
                buttonPanel.repaint(); //Make the button disappear.
            } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exc) {
            }
        } else if (CLEAR.equals(command)) {
            display.setText("");
        }
    }

    /**
     * Create the GUI and show it.  For thread safety,
     * this method should be invoked from the
     * event-dispatching thread.
     */
    private static void createAndShowGUI() {
        //Create and set up the window.
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("ContainerEventDemo");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        //Create and set up the content pane.
        JComponent newContentPane = new ContainerEventDemo();
        newContentPane.setOpaque(true); //content panes must be opaque
        frame.setContentPane(newContentPane);

        //Display the window.
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
        //creating and showing this application's GUI.
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                createAndShowGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

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Handle Container Event - Java Swing

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