IDE Support for GUI Design
Many IDEs provide GUI design tools with which you can specify a component’s size, location and other attributes in a visual manner by using the mouse, the keyboard and drag-and-drop. The IDEs generate the GUI code for you. This greatly simplifies creating GUIs, but each IDE generates this code differently. For this reason, we wrote the GUI code by hand, as you’ll see in the source-code files for this chapter’s examples. We encourage you to build each GUI visually using your preferred IDE(s).
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