For this lab, you will do some work on a GUI program. Most of the work is related to actions, buttons, menus, and toolbars.

When you turn in your work for this lab, you should paste the code for your executable jar file of your program, in addition to all the files from your Eclipse project.  See the last section on this page for information about how to create executable jar files.

To begin the lab, create a new project in Eclipse and copy-and-paste both directories - guidemo and resources -- from the code directory into your Eclipse project. The guidemo directory is a package that contains the Java code of the program. The resources directory has several sub-directories that contain image and sound resources used by the program. You will be working only on the code in the guidemo package.

The code directory also contains an executable jar file of the completed program, GuiDemoComplete.jar. You can run this jar file to see how the program should look when it's done. In the incomplete source code that you will be working on, the main class is in GuiDemo.java, and you can execute that file to see what the program does so far.