you are right it is a very broad example, but it has to be... here is an example that may help you to understand: you are in a chat room playing tag with the others... someone that was 'it' writes <tag Tanya>. (custom event) your program listens for <tag> and sends you a message <Tanya you're it> & everyone else gets, <Tany is now it>. ---so you create a custom events to notify other modules or even other programs of the event you want notification of. it isn't something a novice programmer will use but is worth knowing about.
On Feb 23, 1:14 pm, Tanya Dina Ruttenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Class, > I haven't seen any discussion on this list about the Events homework lab. > I understood the basic Events lab, with the ButtonHandler, but I don't > understand the subsequent lab where you create your own event at all. > I'm so baffled by it that I don't even have a real question about it. > I am trying to write the 5 classes required for the homework, but I don't > understand what they do exactly or how they hang together. I have read and > read and read and gone over them very carefully, but I still don't get it. :-( > Can someone just give a succinct summary of what each file is supposed to do? > MyOwnEvent.java > MyOwnEventExample.java > MyOwnEventListenerImpl.java > MyOwnEventListenerInterface.java > MyOwnEventSource.java > I know this is a very broad inquiry. I'm thinking I'll just skip this lesson > and come back to it after I've done Interfaces and Abstract classes. Perhaps > that will help?? > Tanya --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
