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Subclasses of AWTEvent

Class Purpose ActionEventThis is an event that indicates a component-defined action occurred, such as clicking a button. AdjustmentEventemitted by adjustable objects AncestorEventIt tells a child component that an event occurred with one of the parent components. ComponentEventindicates a component moved, changed size, became visible or invisible, etc. This event is for notification purposes only. HierarchyEventThis event indicates some change to the component hierarchy to which a component belongs. InputMethodEventThis event fires when text is entered into an appropriate component. Anytime the text changes, for any reason, the input method sends an event. InternalFrameEventIt is an AWTEvent that adds support for JInternalFrame objects as the event source. It has the same event types as WindowEvent. InvocationEventThis event will execute the run() method on a Runnable when dispatched by the AWT event dispatcher thread. ItemEventThis event indicates that an item was selected or deselected. You will see this associated frequently with list boxes. TextEventThis event indicates that an object's text changed.