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CREATING ADVANCED GUIs AND SHARING YOUR APP

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For the GUI desktop version of the Secret Messages app, we’re going to provide two large text areas that allow the user to copy and paste long messages in the GUI interface. By the end of the chapter, we’ll add a slider for key selection like the one shown in Figure 7-1, which will make cracking Caesar ciphers very easy, even when the key is unknown!

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Figure 7-1: The Secret Messages encoder/decoder app we’ll build in this chapter

This version of the app is more user-friendly than the console-based app, ...

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