Exam 12: Event Driven Gui Programming Multithreading and Animation

When you use a menu bar, it is at the top of the screen in most GUI programs, and the first menu item is almost always ____.

List the general design principles used when creating a program that will use a GUI.

An object that is "interested in" an event to which you want it to respond is a(n) ____________________.

A(n) ____ is a list of the objects used in a program, including which screens they are used on and whether any code is associated with them.

GUI programs are frequently called action-controlled because actions occur in response to user-initiated events such as clicking a mouse button.

With a(n) ____ program, a user can continue to click buttons while your program is reading a data file.

Using multiple threads of execution is known as ____.

Discuss using the integrated development environment to create applications.

A ____________________ contains a series of wireframes that represent a user's experience with proposed software.

GUI programmers sometimes refer to screen space as ____.

Computer users can expect to see a standard interface in the GUI programs they use.

When you program in a language that uses GUI components, you need to create them from scratch.

Describe a thread.

A(n) ____________________ is a list of the objects used in a program, including which screens they are used on and whether any code, or script, is associated with them.

Cartoonists create animated films by drawing a sequence of ____ or cells.

A(n) ____ shows the relationship between screens in an interactive GUI program.

In object-oriented languages, the procedural modules that depend on user-initiated events are often called applets.

Operating system software allows you to use a mouse or other pointing device to select pictures, or ____, on the screen.

A ____ is a rectangular object you can click; when you do, its appearance usually changes to look pressed.

The ____ is the location on your computer screen at which you type entries to communicate with the computer's operating system.