Purposes of the assignment:

• To get you started writing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
• To give you practice using the Java APIs

The basic idea:

The GUI that I've provided is a very simple one; you type in commands at the bottom, and the transcript (commands and results) appears in the rest of the window. It looks something like this:

Your task is to add Components (such as Lists and Buttons) and Listeners to this GUI, so that you can do most operations just by pointing and clicking, rather than typing in commands. (But keep the ability to type in commands.)

My GUI for doing this looks like:

In this GUI:

• The top line shows your location.
• You can move by clicking on a direction (under Exits:), then on the Go button.
• You can pick up a thing by clicking on the thing's name (under You see:), then on the Take button.
• You can use a thing by clicking on its name (under You are holding:), then on the Use button.
• You can drop a thing by clicking on its name (under You are holding:), then on the Drop button.
• You can save a copy of the transcript to a file by clicking on the Save button.
• You can still type in commands if you prefer.

Your GUI does not need to look exactly like this!

Requirements:

• Do not use Forté, JBuilder, or any of the other IDEs that create a GUI for you. I want you to implement this GUI "by hand," so you know exactly what is involved.
  
  
• Use AWT, not Swing.
  
  
• You should display your name somewhere on the GUI.
  
  
• Your GUI should be reasonably neat, but it does not need to be perfect. It's very difficult to get an AWT GUI to look exactly the way you want it to, so don't work too hard at it.
  
  
• Your GUI should provide point-and-click versions of all the commands.
  • Exceptions:
    • If there is no need for the command. For example, my GUI shows the inventory (what you are holding) at all times, so there is no need for an [Inventory] button.
    • If the command requires text input (for example, saying a magic word).
      
      
• Keep the ability to type in commands.
  
  
• Provide both a text command and a Button for saving the transcript to a text file.
  • If you look carefully at the program, you will find that all the hard work has already been done.
    
    
• Add javadoc comments for any new classes, methods, or public variables that you have added to my basic program.

Notes:

• You might (or might not) find my javadoc documentation for this program useful. You can see it from within BlueJ by choosing Interface rather than Implementation in any class window.
  
  
• You should put an @author tag in each of your new classes. It would be appropriate to add a new @author tag (in addition to mine) in each of my classes that you modify.
  
  
• You will probably find the examples in widgets.html to be helpful; feel free to borrow code from there.

Due date:

Wednesday, November 13, before midnight. Please turn in a zip or jar file via Blackboard.