6, supporting most of the bare
essentials for the majority of applications, but should support nearly all of the IUP libraries when this
book goes to print. Table 17 - 1 details the nGui control list.
Table 17-1
Control Functionality Type
Button Standard button control Interactive
Label Standard label control Informative
List List, drop-down list, and combo box functionality Interactive
OLE Container for ActiveX controls (Windows only) External control support
Text Single and multiline text field control Interactive
Radio Buttons Standard radio buttons Interactive
Menu Dialog-based and context-sensitive menu control Interactive
Dialog Standard dialog control Container
Frame Layout container with label Layout / Informative
HBox Layout container Layout
VBox Layout container Layout
Tabs Multipage layout container Layout
Unfortunately, the IUP library doesn ??™ t currently support a checkbox control, but facilitates the same
functionality through the use of a toggle button control, instead.
The nGui Manager Class
The nGui library follows the same basic principals of any event - based programming architecture,
whereby the application presenting the interface will enter a perpetual loop and should only exit the
loop upon the applications exit request.
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