Lesson 14 - Graphic Clock in Java Swing - Form Handling
From the previous lesson, Graphic Clock in Java Swing - Drawing, we've got the analog clock up and
running, rendered on a JPanel
. We're going to finish the app
today.
The Digital and Combined Clock
Let's extend our app to draw digital or combined clocks. We'll add a new Java
enum
named ClockType
to the project. This is, of
course, an enumeration type we're going to use to distinguish the type of the
clock being rendered:
public enum ClockType {
Digital,
Analog,
Combined;
}
Now let's get back to the Clock
class and add
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