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Title: Graphical User Interface
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| 1 | + | Graphical user interface (GUI) is program that enables a person to communicate with electronic devices such as computers, smart phone, hand-held devices and other appliances through the use of symbols, visual metaphors, and pointing devices (such as a mouse, stylus, trackball, touchpad, a finger, or gesture ). | |
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| 3 | + | The graphical user interface consists of user interface components, such as windows or forms (e.g.[[TForm]]), menus (e.g. [[TMainMenu]], [[TPopupMenu]]), radio buttons (e.g. [[TRadioButton]], [[TRadioGroup]]), check boxes (e.g. [[TCheckBox]], [[TCheckGroup]]) and icons. | |
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| 5 | + | The first graphical user interface programmed with Pascal was made for Apple Lisa in 1983 (see more [[Lisa Pascal]] programming language). | |
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| 7 | + | The Lazarus [[IDE|development environment]] is a good example of how to use the Graphical User Interface. More examples can be found in the [[Projects using Lazarus]] software category pages. | |
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| 9 | + | ## See also | |
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| 11 | + | - [[Command-line interface]] | |
| 12 | + | - [[Text User Interface]] | |
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| 15 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Graphical User Interface", as it stood on 2020-07-30 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |