Fall Semester 2005

Lab Twelve: Reviewing keyboard events and JMenus.

The assignment for today's lab will consist of only one problem:

A high-school course teaches students how to "touch type." The instructor would like to use an application that allows the student to watch what he or she is typing on the screen without looking at the keyboard. Your application should display a virtual keyboard that highlights any key the student presses on the real keyboard. This application should also contain menu commands for selecting the font style, size and color of the text, and for clearing the displayed text.

Here's the completed application, so you can test-drive it: labTwelve.jar

Remember, you have to develop it from scratch, the code provided is meant to clarify the requirements.

Download the contents of the link to your desktop, then run the program as follows from the command line:

java -classpath labTwelve.jar TypingApplication
Here's the way the application will look when you run it.

Your task is to provide an implementation that works exactly as the one you're test driving.

Remember, you have to develop it from scratch, the code provided is meant to clarify the requirements.

Last updated on Aug 29, 2005, by Adrian German for A202/A598 and I211