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J. MereloRaku Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6258-0_13

13. Creating Desktop Applications

J. J. Merelo1 
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Granada, Granada, Spain
 

When your application is addressed to a non-technical audience, you need to design it so that the users can move around and get their jobs done with only a keyboard, and maybe mouse. There are many ways to achieve that, from using a simple console UI to a more complicated, and if possible portable, window-based application. That functionality is not available by default in Raku, so in most cases you will need to use distributions in the ecosystem, and these will probably use native libraries, so this chapter also focuses on them.

Recipe 13-1. Use Full-Console UI

Problem

Create a frontend that ...

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