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The Java software components and the event driven technique support a GUI for games. The GUI is not only showing the output of a game but also plays an input role. This chapter illustrates these features of a GUI by developing a game Anagram from a pure in-text version to a GUI version. The input portion of the GUI equips the game with software components for allowing the player to input data and actions in order to trigger events for updating the state of the game. The output portion of the GUI provides a board for repainting the updated scenes dynamically. Switching a same game from a text version to a GUI version intuitively explores the features of the event-driven technique clearer and deeper.
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Xu, Cw. (2018). Event-Driven: Adding a GUI for the Game Anagram In-Text. In: Learning Java with Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72886-5_7
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