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Chapter 3: The Application Framework

The interface toolkit

In the previous sections, you created windows and menus by writing the code to generate them by hand. It is not always necessary or desirable to do so.

MCL comes with a tool for creating user interfaces graphically. It is called the "Interface Toolkit", or "IFT" for short. It comes in source code form, with instructions, and is located on your MCL CD. It allows you to build windows, subviews of windows, menus and menu-items graphically, and then generates the source code for these UI elements automatically. It can even be extended to handle new kinds of UI elements that you design.

Gettmg Started with MCL - 19 OCT 1996

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