Panel : Java Glossary

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Panel

to make Applet or Frame layout easier, you break a frame up into regions and compose each of them separately. Each region is called a Panel. Each can have its own different LayoutManager.Panels don’t have any visible bounding lines. You can delimit them with differing background colours. If you want something to draw on with drawString and drawLine normally you would use a Canvas.

The Swing equivalent of a Panel is called a JPanel.

Learning More

Sun’s Javadoc on the Panel class : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
in the JDK 1.6.0_06 or in the older JDK 1.5.0_15 or the even older JDK 1.4.2_17 on your local J: drive.

AWT
Canvas
JPanel
layout
LayoutManager
Swing
window differences

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