AWT Documentation
You have documentation of the AWT if you downloaded it from the
Sun Microsystems web site
(or if you bought a commercial Java development environment).
If you have the documentation,
it might be on your hard disk at
C:\jdk1.2.2\docs\index.html.
You may want to look there later.
To read the documentation,
you need keep inheritance in mind.
For example,
here is the top
of the documentation for the class Component
(the actual documentation is much longer):
java.awt
Class Component
java.lang.Object
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+--java.awt.Component
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- Box.Filler,
Button,
Canvas,
Checkbox,
Choice,
Container,
Label,
List,
Scrollbar,
TextComponent
This says that class Component is a child
of Object, and then lists the
children of Component.
This says much the same thing as
a previous diagram
in these Notes.
In the real documentation you can click on a child class name to
go to its documentation
(this does not work here.)
By doing this you can go up and down the inheritance
hierarchy.
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