AWT Event Handling

• Component method postEvent() will send an event to the Component (the toolkit does this for you).
• Component method handleEvent() will handle it. This can be overridden.
• Component's handleEvent() classifies event and calls appropriate method - action(), keyDown(), keyUp(), mouseDown(), ..., gotFocus(), lostFocus()
• If handleEvent() returns false, then the parent's handleEvent() is called.
• If no Component returns true from handleEvent() then the Peer method is called (bizarre!!)