javax.swing.JRadioButton and Related Classes

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∟JRadioButton - Swing Radio Button Class

∟javax.swing.JRadioButton and Related Classes

This section describes the javax.swing.JRadioButton class, the javax.swing.ButtonGroup class, and the javax.swing.JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel class.

javax.swing.JRadioButton - A Swing class representing a UI radio button. Some interesting methods are:

JRadioButton(String) - Constructor to create a radio button with the specified string displayed next to the button.
addActionListener(ActionListener) - Method to add an action listener to this button to handle action events. A mouse click on this button will trigger one action event.
addChangeListener(ChangeListener) - Method to add a change listener to this button to handle change events. A mouse click on this button will trigger many change events.
addItemListener(ItemListener) - Method to add an item listener to this button to handle item events. A mouse click on this button will trigger one item event.
setActionCommand(String) - Method to set an action command string to this button.

javax.swing.ButtonGroup - A Swing class representing a group of buttons. If one radio button is selected in a group, all other buttons in the same group are un-selected.

add(AbstractButton) - Method to add a button to this button group.
getSelection() - Method to return the selected button in this button group as a ButtonModel object.

javax.swing.JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel - A Swing class representing a default implementation of toggle button's data model. ToggleButtonModel is an inner class nested inside javax.swing.JToggleButton, which is a base class of JRadioButton.