How to build a GUI using the C+N library

• Smalltalk Environment-Building GUI Interface
• Smalltalk Language-HIC-Building Windows
• Smalltalk Language-HIC-Building Buttons
• Smalltalk Language-HIC-Building Display (Text) Boxes

Description

How to build a GUI using the C+N library

Strategy: If we reuse the user interface package from Coad and Nicola, it's very easy to build a GUI. The GUI isn't very powerful, but it's enough to get started.

Expected Outcome

Concepts related to this step:

• What is the Model-View-Controller paradigm?

Examples of this Generic Step

• Step: Build the ButtonLessViewContainer class and its methods in Project: P1-DivisorCount (Derrick)
• Step: Create the view container for spreadsheets. in Project: P2 - Spreadsheets (Derrick)
• Step: Create the classes Spreadsheet, SpreadsheetSumSheet, CellAverageSheet, and SpreadSheetViewContainer in Project: P2 - Spreadsheets (Janak)
• Step: Define the SpreadSheetViewContainer class in Project: P2-Spreadsheet (Salman)
• Step: Build the SlaveViewContainer in Project: P1-DivisorCount (Masud)