Java programming course: 14.5 JButton

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JButton

The JButton class displays a clickable button component with the text you specify:  

JButton button = new JButton("Please click me");
panel.add(button);
 

The above code result in:.

Note that although you can click on the button and it gives the visual feedback of being pressed and released, nothing actually happens until you attach a listener object to the button, so it knows what action to perform. You saw how to do this in Section 13.

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