16.4. Stage 3: Adding Functionality Through Event Handling
To introduce C# GUI event handling in a gentle, stepwise fashion, we'll do so in three phases:
First, we'll talk about the C# event model in general.
Second, we'll illustrate how to tackle event handling with a simple Push Me button example.
Finally, we'll dive in and provide full-blown event handling for the SRS GUI.
16.4.1. The C# Event Model
GUI events are generated whenever a user interacts with an enabled object on the GUI—clicks a button, types in a field, and so on. As with virtually everything else in C#, events themselves are objects! There are many different types of events; we'll learn about several of these shortly.
When we create a GUI object, it automatically has the capability ...
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