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Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity
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Introducing Vala Programming: A Language and Techniques to Boost Productivity

by Michael Lauer
November 2019
Beginner
248 pages
3h 53m
English
Apress
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© Michael Lauer 2019
M. LauerIntroducing Vala Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5380-9_6

6. UI Programming with GTK+

Michael Lauer1 
(1)
Neu-Isenburg, Hessen, Germany
 

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This chapter discusses UI programming with Vala using GTK+ 3.0. After introducing the basic principles of event-driven systems (with UI programming being one of the major applications), we will present an application combining several aspects learned in the previous chapters, for example, network transfers and JSON parsing.

Event-Driven Systems

An event-driven system is a system where an event, such ...

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