Effective Layout Management: Magercise 3: FTP GUI

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Without looking at the code in the course notes (except, perhaps, for the GridBagLayout parts) try to recreate the FTP GUI that is discussed in the course notes.

Note: If you feel this is trivial, skip to the next Magercise, where you will design a GUI without its layout being discussed.

Magercise 3 Prerequisites

None.

Tasks:

1. Draw a picture! Make a copy of the FTP GUI picture on a piece of paper so you see exactly what you need to create.

2. Annotate your picture with the expansion behavior. Draw symbols on your picture that indicate how the GUI will react to expansion. Compare your picture with those in the course notes.

3. Create your GUI. No skeleton code is provided for this exercise. You may create your GUI using one of the two example styles in the course notes or with your own preferred style.

   Try not to look at the example source in the course notes while creating this GUI.

Where help exists, the task numbers above are linked to the step-by-step help page.

Solution Source

• ftp/Ftp.java
• ftp/FileDisplay.java
• ftp2/Ftp.java
• ftp2/FileDisplay.java