For this exercise you design an applet that displays a List object and a TextField object. When an item is selected from the list, the associated string is displayed in the noneditable textfield. The list is populated with the names of the currently recognized fonts.

Prerequisites

• Beeping Mouse

Skeleton Code

// version 1.1
String fontList[] = getToolkit().getFontList(); 

// version 1.2
GraphicsEnvironment env =
GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment();
   String fontList[] = env.getAvailableFontFamilyNames();
   
// version 1.1
list.addItem(fontList[i]);

// version 1.2
list.add(fontList[i]);

• ListFonts.java (version 1.1)
• ListFonts.html (version 1.1)
• ListFonts2.java (version 1.2)
• ListFonts2.html (version 1.2)

Tasks

1. To receive the item events, add the applet itself as an ItemListener target. That is, the applet should implement this interface.

2. Define the itemStateChanged() method so that it calls getSelectedItem() to get the currently selected item and displays it in the textfield, tf, with setText().

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

Solution Source

• ListFonts.java
• ListFonts.html
• ListFonts2.java
• ListFonts2.html

Demonstration

This exercise only runs within browsers that support the Java Runtime Environment 1.1 and appletviewer. If you are using an appropriate browser, try this exercise. The output should look similar to the following:

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