Class ThumbelinaFrame

Method Details

• getThumbelina

  public Thumbelina getThumbelina()

  Access the Thumbelina object contained in the frame.

  Returns:

  The Thumbelina bean.

• initState

  public void initState()

  Initialize the user preferences. Reads from the existing user preferences, or initializes values from the bean directly if they don't exist. Sets the state of the view checkboxes to match.

• saveState

  public void saveState()

  Saves the current settings in the user preferences. By default this writes to the thumbelina subdirectory under .java in the users home directory.

• initSize

  public void initSize()

  Sets the frame size if no previous preference has been stored. It creates a window covering all but BORDERPERCENT margins.

• restoreSize

  public void restoreSize()

  Restores the window size based on stored preferences. If no preferences exist, it calls initSize().

• toString

  protected String toString(Rectangle r)

  Converts the rectangle to a string. The rectangle is converted into a string that is of the form

   [x,y,width,height].
   

  Parameters:

  r - The rectangle containing the window position and size, as returned by getBounds().

  Returns:

  The string equivalent of the rectangle.

• fromString

  protected Rectangle fromString(String value) throws IllegalArgumentException

  Convert the given string to a valid rectangle. The string is converted to a Rectangle.

  Parameters:

  value - The value to parse.

  Returns:

  Returns the rectangle extracted from the string.

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if the format does not match the form "[x,y,width,height]" with all values integers.

• makeMenu

  public void makeMenu()

  Create the menu. Initializes the menu and adds it to the frame.

• updateMenu

  public void updateMenu()

  Adjusts the menu, by inserting the current MRU list. Removes the old MRU (Most Recently Used) items and inserts new ones betweeen the two separators.

• windowOpened

  public void windowOpened(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked the first time a window is made visible. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowOpened in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowClosing

  public void windowClosing(WindowEvent event)

  Handles window closing event. Performs function exitApplication().

  Specified by:

  windowClosing in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowClosed

  public void windowClosed(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked when a window has been closed as the result of calling dispose on the window. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowClosed in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowIconified

  public void windowIconified(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked when a window is changed from a normal to a minimized state. For many platforms, a minimized window is displayed as the icon specified in the window's iconImage property. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowIconified in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowDeiconified

  public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked when a window is changed from a minimized to a normal state. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowDeiconified in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowActivated

  public void windowActivated(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked when the window is set to be the user's active window, which means the window (or one of its subcomponents) will receive keyboard events. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowActivated in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• windowDeactivated

  public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent event)

  Invoked when a window is no longer the user's active window, which means that keyboard events will no longer be delivered to the window or its subcomponents. Not used.

  Specified by:

  windowDeactivated in interface WindowListener

  Parameters:

  event - The window event.

• actionPerformed

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)

  Handles events from the menu. Based on the action of the event, executes the necessary subroutine.

  Specified by:

  actionPerformed in interface ActionListener

  Parameters:

  actionEvent - The event describing the user action.

• itemStateChanged

  public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent event)

  Handles selections on the view state checkboxes.

  Specified by:

  itemStateChanged in interface ItemListener

  Parameters:

  event - The event describing the checkbox affected.

• propertyChange

  public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent event)

  Handle a property change.

  Specified by:

  propertyChange in interface PropertyChangeListener

  Parameters:

  event - The property old and new values.

• updateMRU

  public void updateMRU(String url)

  Updates the user preferences based on the most recently used list.

  Parameters:

  url - The URL that is to be placed at the top of the MRU list.

• open

  public void open()

  Opens a user specified URL.

• googlesearch

  public void googlesearch()

  Query google via user specified keywords and queue results. Asks the user for keywords, and then submits them as input to the usual google form:

   
  
   
   
  
   
  
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
  
      • <a href=/advanced_search?hl=en>Advanced Search
     
   • <a href=/preferences?hl=en>Preferences
     
   • <a href=/language_tools?hl=en>Language Tools
   
   
   
   
  
   
  
   Search: 
    the web
   
   pages from Canada
   
   
   
   
   
   

  Creates a query of the form:

   http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=thumbs&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
   

• about

  public void about()

  Display information about Thumbelina.

• exit

  public void exit()

  Exits the application. Saves user preferences before exiting.

• main

  public static void main(String[] args)

  Alternate mainline for Thumbelina. Similar code exists in the Thumbelina class, but this version doesn't worry about java version.

  Parameters:

  args - The command line arguments. Optionally, arg[0] can be the URL to preload the Thumeblina bean with.