Java Glossary : Frame

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Frame

A Window with controls on it such as optional resizing buttons, an icon, a menubar and a title.

When you specify the frame size, make it 32 pixels taller than you need for the contents to allow room for the top frame bar. To add to the confusion, the origin is in the top corner under the frame bar. So you must add 32 to all your y co-ordinates inside a frame.

Frames are unusually tricky to close.

The Swing equivalent of a Frame is called a JFrame.

The term frame has a different meaning in datacommunications. Data are usually transmitted in bursts. Each burst is called a frame. It usually has some additional information such as the frame number, the size of the block, the error-checking code and markers for the start and end.

In HTML, frame refers to the independently scrollable panels on your browser screen.

documentation on Frame : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\java\awt\Frame.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\java\awt\Frame.html

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