The BreezyGUI Interface Package

<body> <p>BreezyGUI is a package of Java classes that simplifies the creation of a graphical user interface and the handling of interface events. BreezyGUI is not an editor, a layout manager, or a development environment. Instead it simplifies the interface and event model that programmers deal with by subclassing java.awt.Frame and java.awt.Dialog. <p>Programmers who import BreezyGUI into their applications and applets can create a GUI the easy way. By using the package, textbook authors can escape the limitations of terminal I/O in their introductory Java textbooks and inject some fun into the lives of struggling students everywhere. <p>The developers think graphical user interfaces in Java are fun and should be readily accessible to everyone, not just AWT specialists.<p>We believe that graphical user interfaces can be taught early in the computer science curriculum and included in both application and applet based programs. <p>BreezyGUI extends Java's Frame and Dialog classes which are part of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit and Swing.<p>We have used BreezyGUI in our CS1 and CS2 textbooks and hope it will eventually be used widely in the computer science curriculum. Our Java textbooks include: <p>Lambert and Osborne,<b>Java: A Framework for Programming and Problem Solving</b>, published by PWS <p>Lambert and Osborne, <b>Java: A Complete Course in Programming and Problem Solving</b>, published by South-Western <p>Lambert and Osborne, <b>Java : A Framework for Program Design and Data Structures</b>, published by Brooks/Cole Thompson Learning <p>BreezyGUI is free Java software. <p> </body>