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11 \page interface_intro Introduction to the Interface Kit
13 The Interface Kit holds all the classes you'll need to develop a GUI.
14 Building on the messaging facilities provided by the Application Kit,
15 the Interface Kit can be used to create a responsive and attractive
16 graphical user interface.
18 The most important class in the Interface Kit is the BView class, which
19 handles drawing and user interaction. Pointer and keyboard events are
20 processed in this class.
22 Another important class is the BWindow class, which holds BViews and makes
23 them visible to the user. The BWindow class also handles BView focusing
24 and BMessage dispatching, among other things.
26 A new addition Haiku has added over the BeOS API is the Layout API, which
27 is based around the BLayoutItem and BLayout classes. These classes will
28 take care of making sure all your GUI widgets end up where you want them,
29 with enough space to be useful. You can start learning the Layout API
30 by reading the \link layout_intro introduction \endlink.