• In Java terminology, a frame is a window with a title and a border.
• A frame may also have a menu bar.
• Frames play an important role in the AWT because a GUI program normally displays a frame when it's executed.
• The DrawableFrame objects used in previous chapters are examples of frames.
• Frames are created using one of the constructors in the Frame class.
• One constructor takes a single argument (the title to be displayed at the top of the frame):

Frame f = new Frame("Title goes here");

• Although the Frame object now exists, it's not visible on the screen.
• Before making the frame visible, a method should be called to set the size of the frame.
• If desired, the frame's location can also be specified.

• Many methods used with Frame objects are inherited from Window (Frame's superclass) or from Component (Window's superclass).
• The setSize method sets the width and height of a frame:

f.setSize(width, height);

• If a program fails to call setSize or pack before displaying a frame, it will assume a default size.
• The size of a frame can change during the execution of a program.
• The getSize method returns a frame's current width and height:

Dimension frameSize = f.getSize();

• frameSize.width will contain f's width. frameSize.height will contain f's height.
• The setVisible method controls whether or not a frame is currently visible on the screen.
• Calling setVisible with true as the argument makes a frame visible:

f.setVisible(true);

• Calling it with false as the argument makes the frame disappear from the screen:

f.setVisible(false);

• The Frame object still exists; it can be made to reappear later by calling setVisible again.

• The FrameTest program creates a Frame object and displays it on the screen.
• This program illustrates three key steps:
1. Using the Frame constructor to create a frame.
2. Setting the size of the frame.
3. Displaying the frame on the screen.

// Displays a frame on the screen.
// WARNING: Frame cannot be closed.
import java.awt.*;
public class FrameTest 
{
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		Frame f = new Frame("Frame Test");
		f.setSize(214,141);
		f.setVisible(true);
  	}
}

Output :

• By default, all windows (including frames) are displayed in the upper-left corner of the screen, which has coordinates (0, 0).
• The setLocation method can be used to specify a different location:

f.setLocation(50, 75);

• To find the current location of a frame, call getLocation:

Point frameLocation = f.getLocation();

• The coordinates of f's upper-left corner will be stored in frameLocation.x and frameLocation.y.

• The Frame class is rarely used to create objects directly.
• Instead, it's customary to define a subclass of Frame and then create an instance of the subclass.
• This strategy makes it possible to tailor the subclass.
• In particular, the constructor for the subclass can put components into the frame.