COMP 445 - GUI Programming

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Frank McCown
Science 207
10:00 – 11:15 TR

• Syllabus
• Writing Clean Code
• MSDNAA Student Use Agreement
• Easel

GUI Bloopers:

• GUI Bloopers Presentations
• Presentation Grading Sheet
• Chapter 1: First Principles
• Chapter 2: GUI Component Bloopers
• Chapter 3: Layout and Appearance Bloopers
• Chapter 4: Textual Bloopers
• Chapter 5: Interaction Bloopers
• Chapter 6: Web Bloopers
• Chapter 7: Responsiveness Bloopers

Win32 API Examples:

• Count Paint Messages (.cpp) (.exe)
• Count Paint Messages 2 (with colored rectangles) (.cpp) (.exe)

C# Examples:

• Modal, nonmodal, and common dialog boxes project   (.exe)

Homework:

• Lights Out! in C#
• Smooth Animation
• Screen Saver in C#

Projects:

• Door Prize Program (C#)
• eXtreme Player (VB.NET)
• Web Browser (Java SWT)

.NET Programming:

• Introduction to .NET
• McCown's VB.NET and C# Comparison
• Accessing Unmanaged Code from Managed Code
• Creating a Screen Saver with C#
• Background Worker in .NET 2.0 GUI libraries

Java Programming:

• Java and C# Comparison
• AWT, Swing, SWT, and JFace: A comparison of Java
• Programming with Eclipse
• Constructing SWT Layouts

GUI References:

• A Brief History of User Interfaces
• Post-WIMP User Interfaces by Andries van Dam (1997)
• GUI Screenshots
• Guidebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery
• Effective Visual Communication for Graphical User Interfaces
• Checkboxes vs. Radio buttons

Programming Microsoft Windows Forms by Charles Petzold (2006) Download code samples

GUI Bloopers by Jeff Johnson (2000)

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