Java Fractal Explorer [2/8]

hello everyone welcome to your very first fractal Explorer tutorial the first thing we're going to do is we are going to create a workspace for our fractal Explorer uh my workspace is going to be in a GitHub folder um so if you want to create one just right click hit new folder and you see I already have a bunch of projects going on but one of those projects is the fractal Explorer now I have some template files right here that you don't need to worry about um so next step is going to be to open one of your favorite editors um here I have atom open you can create a new file by hitting command n now save this file in your workspace um let's see m is on GitHub fral Explorer name the file fractal explorer. Java so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to put a header oops and in this header put something like a fractal Explorer created in Java and put your name okay so let's get started so I'm going to import all the Imports we're going to need for this series so we're going to need java.util oops we're also going to need need java. awt star we're also going to need Java awt image we're going to be using the buffered image um we're also going to be using event for Mouse clicks and keyboard strokes and so on and we're going to be using Java X swing for gooey components to create the graphical user interface since we named this file fractal Explorer that's going to be the name our class so public class fractal Explorer and we're going to make this be a jframe so make sure you have extends jframe here so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to call the main method and the main method is going to create a new instance of the fractal Explorer so new fractal Explorer like that and that's going to call the instructor so let's create a Constructor and the Constructor is where we are going to initialize um our guey and for this this first video all I want to do is have a canvas that pops up on the screen so let's do that um set initial gooey properties I think that method is pretty self-explanatory um it's just going to set some properties for guey um but before we do that let's create some instance variables for the width and the height of our canvas um width let's make the width 600 let's make the height also 600 there you go so now I'm just going to list a bunch of properties and explain what they do afterwards okay so what do all these properties mean well this first one sets the title of our graphical user interface to fractal Explorer set default close operation is a method which determines how our window will close the option JF frame. exit on close ensures that when we click the x button of our window the window closes naturally as you would expect set size just sets the size of the guey so it's going to be 600 by 600 set resizable locks locks the frame so that we can't actually resize it and we don't want this just because we're going to have a canvas on top of it and we would rather that stay fixed set relative location 2 and null makes sure that when our guey is created that is placed in the center of the screen and set visible makes makes everything visible so let's run this and see if it works so open up your terminal and my workspace was on the desktop in the GitHub folder INF fral Explorer um so I'm going to compile my my fractal Explorer video and we don't have any errors and let's see if it runs and indeed it does and we get a simple graphical user interface with nothing on it as expected and this is the title we set and and the size is 600 by 600 and if we click the the Red X at the top left corner our gooey exits and this is all I wanted to do for the first video is just get a frame on the screen and get everything started so guys thank you for watching and see you in the next tutorial thank you