September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h
English
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Chapter Fourteen. GUI Programming: Windows Forms
The applications we have worked on thus far have had text-based user interfaces. Such interfaces are often the most suitable and easy to use. However, the graphical user interface (GUI) has proved to be very popular and convenient for most users. The .NET Framework offers a wide set of classes that encapsulate windows and graphics functionality, are very easy to use, and are accessible by all .NET-compliant objects. This means that we can use PerlNET to develop graphical applications as easily as we can text-based analogues. First, we discuss the importance of GUI and learn how to create a simple window. Then, we enrich our application with different graphical controls: textboxes, buttons, and ...