Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

Running into a strange issue today. I have a window (custom class extending a JFrame). When this window closes, I want it to call the function 'closeListener(java.awt.event.WindowEvent e)' and do some ...

HOW CAN YOU process all AWT events within an application? There are various reasons why you may want to use the techniques we're about to examine: You may want to log all AWT events, modify events as ...