EE408 Lab 5: Organization Widgets (Tabbed Panes and Dialogs)

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Due: 5 PM, Friday October 17.

The objective of this lab exercise is to learn to use JTabbedPane and JDialog by modifying GUI2.java, which was given as part of Assignment 2.

Task Description

Add two buttons, "Add Font" and "Remove Font" at the bottom of the GUI2 frame, which, respectively, can be used to add and remove a font to and from the tabbed pane.

When these buttons are clicked, a modal dialog should pop up. The popup dialog should have the corresponding title. It should contain a text field in the middle so that a user can type in a font name. The dialog should also have two buttons, OK and Cancel, at bottom. When OK is pressed, the font should be added/removed to and from the tabbed pane, respectively. Of course, a font should not be added if it already appears in the tabbed pane.

You may want to consult this tutorial section about JTabbedPane and this section about JDialog.

Demonstrate to me once you are done with these exercises so that I can grade.

Have a good weekend.

Bonus Task (1%)

Keep the tabs in the tabbed pane sorted in alphabetic order of tab titles.

Hints. Two strings can be compared by the compareTo()/compareToIgnoreCase() method in the java.lang.String class. Tab titles can be accessed by calling getTitleAt() on a tabbed pane, and getTabCount() can be used to obtain the total number of tabs.