Section 12.1 Introduction
• A graphical user interface (GUI; p. 474) presents a user-friendly mechanism for interacting with an application. A GUI gives an application a distinctive look-and-feel (p. 474).
• Providing different applications with consistent, intuitive user-interface components gives users a sense of familarity with a new application, so that they can learn it more quickly.
• GUIs are built from GUI components (p. 474)—sometimes called controls or widgets.
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