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    Lecture 3 Getting Input From The Keyboard

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    The document discusses two ways to get input from the user in Java: using the BufferedReader class and the JOptionPane class. The BufferedReader class is used to read input from the keyboard within a try-catch block to handle exceptions. The JOptionPane class provides a graphical user interface to pop up dialog boxes for getting input or displaying messages to the user.

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    The document discusses two ways to get input from the user in Java: using the BufferedReader class and the JOptionPane class. The BufferedReader class is used to read input from the keyboard within a try-catch block to handle exceptions. The JOptionPane class provides a graphical user interface to pop up dialog boxes for getting input or displaying messages to the user.

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    1.

    BufferedReader class
    2. JOptionPane class
     graphical user interface
     BufferedReader class
     Found in the java.io package
     Used to get input
    1. Add this at the top of your code:
    import java.io.*;

    2. Add this statement:


    BufferedReader dataIn = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(
    System.in) );

    3. Declare a temporary String variable to get the input, and


    invoke the readLine() method to get input from the
    keyboard. You have to type it inside a try-catch block.
    try{
    String temp = dataIn.readLine();
    }catch( IOException e ){
    System.out.println(“Error in getting input”);
    }
    1. import java.io.BufferedReader;

    2. import java.io.InputStreamReader;

    3. import java.io.IOException;

    4.

    5. public class GetInputFromKeyboard {

    6.

    7. public static void main( String[] args ){

    8. BufferedReader dataIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( System.in)


    );

    9.

    10. String name = "";

    11. System.out.print("Please Enter Your Name:");

    12. try{

    13. name = dataIn.readLine();

    14. }catch( IOException e ){

    15. System.out.println("Error!");

    16. }

    17. System.out.println("Hello " + name +"!");

    18. }

    19. }
    The lines,
     import java.io.BufferedReader;
     import java.io.InputStreamReader;
     import java.io.IOException;

     indicate that we want to use the classes BufferedReader,


    InputStreamReader and IOException which are inside
    the java.io package.

    These statements can also be written as,


     import java.io.*;
     The Java Application Programming Interface (API) contains hundreds of
    predefined classes that you can use in your programs. These classes are
    organized into what we call packages.

     Packages contain classes that have related purpose.


     The statement,
     public class GetInputFromKeyboard {
     means we declare a class named GetInputFromKeyboard

     The next statement declares the main method.


     public static void main( String[] args ){

     The statement,
     BufferedReader dataIn = new BufferedReader(new
    InputStreamReader( System.in) );
     declares a variable named dataIn, with the class type
    BufferedReader.
    The statement,
     String name = "";
     declares a String variable with identifier name.
    The next statement,
     System.out.print("Please Enter Your Name:");
     outputs a String on the screen asking for the user's
    name
     The given block defines a try-catch block.
    try{ name = dataIn.readLine();
    }catch( IOException e ){
    System.out.println("Error!");
    }
     This assures that the possible exceptions that could occur
    in the statement name = dataIn.readLine(); will be
    catched.
    Now going back to the statement,
     name = dataIn.readLine();

     the method call, dataIn.readLine(), gets input from the


    user and will return a String value.

     This value will then be saved to our name variable, which we will use in our final
    statement to greet the user,

    System.out.println("Hello " + name + "!");


    Another way to get input from the user is
    by using the JOptionPane class which is
    found in the javax.swing package.

    JOptionPane makes it easy to pop up a


    standard dialog box that prompts users
    for a value or informs them of
    something.
     The statement,
     import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
     indicates that we want to import the class JOptionPane from the
    javax.swing package.
     This can also written as,
     import javax.swing.*;

     The statement,
     name=JoptionPane.showInputDialog(“Please enter your name");
     creates a JOptionPane input dialog, which will display a dialog with
    a message, a textfield and an OK button as shown in the figure.
    • This returns a String which we will save in the name variable.

     The statement,
     String msg = "Hello " + name + "!";
     creates the welcome message, which we will store in the msg
    variable.
     The statement,
     JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, msg);
     displays a dialog which contains a message and an OK button.

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