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A Beginner's Guide to Gambas
Gambas. Our introduction to the tools (which are also called controls) will teach
you about what each control does, what properties, methods, and events you can
use to direct the behavior of the interface you are building, and how to code the
control to make it work exactly as you desire. Along the way, we will be building
several simple projects to get you more experienced in using the Gambas IDE. All
of the controls in the ToolBox are built­in using the gb.qt component. This
component implements the Graphical User Interface classes. It is based on the QT
library. Here is a list of the various functionality the gb.qt component provides:
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Clipboard
Containers
Drag and Drop
Drawing
Fonts
IconView
Keyboard and Mouse
Menus
ListView, TreeView and ColumnView
Printing
We will cover other components later in this book. At the top of Figure 15,
you see the word Form displayed. This is the default toolkit for the gb.qt
component. For now, let's take a quick look at the ToolBox again and review the
icons therein.
Figure 15­ The Gambas ToolBox.
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