Chapter 4. Working with widgets
This chapter covers
How widgets work
Using GWT’s widgets
Interacting with widgets
Creating new widgets
Now that you’ve wet your toes by building the first version of the Dashboard application, you’ll take the next few steps toward building the full version, which uses many different types of widgets and panels as well as handling different types of events. To get there, we first need to tell you exactly what these components are!
This chapter deals specifically with widgets, which are the visible components of a GWT application that a user sees on the browser page: for example buttons, labels, images, and the menu system. Imagine buying a new plasma television and then finding out that the manufacturer hasn’t provided ...
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