Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, 2nd Edition

E. GUI Implementation

“When you finally understandwhat you are doing,things will go right.”

—Bill Fairbank

This appendix presents implementation details of callbacks, Window, Widget, and Vector_ref. In Chapter 16, we couldn’t assume the knowledge of pointers and casts needed for a more complete explanation, so we banished that explanation to this appendix.

E.1 Callback implementation

E.2 Widget implementation

E.3 Window implementation

E.4 Vector_ref

E.5 An example: manipulating Widgets

E.1 Callback implementation

We implemented callbacks like this:

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void Simple_window::cb_next(Address, Address addr)            // call Simple_window::next() for the window located at addr {            reference_to<Simple_window>(addr).next(); ...