Hour 20. Creating a Graphical User Interface

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating the GUI controls

• Sprite class improvements

• GUI base class: Control

• Label control

• Button control

• Horizontal Slider control

• Vertical Slider control

• Demonstrating the GUI controls

This hour finally tackles a subject that we’ve been dancing around for many hours already but haven’t taken seriously yet—graphical user interface programming! A graphical user interface (or GUI) is a system of controls that are displayed on the screen and interactive, allowing the user to interact with the program. We have already been using a Button class quite a bit in past hours, and it has been extremely helpful, despite its simplistic functionality. In this hour, ...

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