ch12 - Chapter 12: Event-Driven GUI Programming,...

Chapter 12: Event-Driven GUI Programming, Multithreading, and Animation
TRUE/FALSE
1. Computer users can expect to see a standard interface in the GUI programs they use.
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2. GUI programs are frequently called action-controlled because actions occur in response to user-initi-
ated events such as clicking a mouse button.
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3. Some organizations include the disk location where an object is stored as part of the object dictionary.
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4. In an event-driven program, you design the screens, define the objects, and define how the screens will
connect.
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5. With a single CPU, multiple threads execute simultaneously.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. From the 1950s, when businesses began to use computers to help them perform many jobs, through the
1970s, almost all interactive dialogues between people and computers took place at the ____.
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2. The ____ is the location on your computer screen at which you type entries to communicate with the
computer’s operating system.
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3. Operating system software allows you to use a mouse or other pointing device to select pictures, or
____, on the screen.
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4. Performing an operation on an icon causes a(n) ____.
a. instance c. event
b. message d. interface

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5. Within an event-driven program, a component from which an event is generated is the ____.
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6. In object-oriented languages, the procedural modules that depend on user-initiated events are often
called ____.
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7. A ____ is a rectangular area into which the user can type text.
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8. A(n) ____ is a label placed beside a small square.
a. option button c. check box
b. button d. text box
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