Effective Layout Management: Magercise 2: Phone Dialing Keypad

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In this Magercise you will create a phone keypad full of buttons laid out with GridLayout.

Magercise 2 Prerequisites

None.

Skeleton Code

PhonePadTest.java

Tasks:

1. Make a subclass of Panel called KeyPad. Define an array of strings containing the key labels on a phone keypad.

2. In the constructor, set the layout to be a 4 row by 3 column grid of buttons. Create and add buttons to the container with a for loop.

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Solution Source

PhonePadTest.java

Demonstration

Magercise 3

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