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Introduction to  Label and TextField 

A Label does exactly what it sounds like it should: places a label on the form. This is particularly important for text fields and text areas that don’t have labels of their own, and can also be useful if you simply want to place textual information on a form. You can, as shown in the first example in this chapter, use drawString( ) inside paint( ) to place text in an exact location. When you use a Label it allows you to (approximately) associate the text with some other component via the layout manager (which will be discussed later in this chapter).

With the constructor you can create a blank label, a label with initial text in it (which is what you’ll typically do), and a label with an alignment of CENTER, LEFT, or RIGHT (static final ints defined in class Label). You can also change the label and its alignment with setText( ) and setAlignment( ), and if you’ve forgotten what you’ve set these to you can read the values with getText( ) and getAlignment( ).

A TextField is a one line area that allows the user to enter and edit text. TextField is inherited from TextComponent, which lets you select text, get the selected text as a String, get or set the text, and set whether the TextField is editable, along with other associated methods that you can find in your online reference. The following example demonstrates some of the functionality of a TextField. The editability of the text is controlled by passing setEditable( ) a true or false

Here is an example using Label and TextField