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Modular Design for Multiple Windows

Most GUI programs will work with more than one window. When you're used to traditional text-based programming, it can be a little tricky to get your head around the logic of making windows come and go in an event-driven environment, but if you organize your code using the trick you are about to learn, it should begin to make perfect sense.

Window Subclasses and Test Code

When designing a window, we never write code to create a Gtk::Window directly; instead we write a subclass of Gtk::Window and instantiate that subclass. (The same idea applies when working with other Gtk classes, as you'll see.) This involves just a little extra overhead, compared to what we've been doing. Each new class will go in a file that ...