October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
13h 44m
English
Without events, the widgets and containers we’ve looked at are only good for decoration. This chapter focuses on how to configure these components to understand and respond to user actions. In particular, it describes the SWT/JFace framework that acquires these actions and translates them into software constructs called events. The process of using a toolset to generate, receive, and respond to these events is the toolset’s event model. Many books on GUIs leave the event model until later chapters, but we feel the subject’s importance demands an early introduction. ...
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