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The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

— Ivan Sutherland

The Morph Book vol. I – Designing Graphical User Interfaces ¶

Short Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Layout Components
3 What is a Morph after all?
4 Handle User Interaction
5 Design a GUI Application
6 Which Components? Where to Find More?
7 Advanced Design Patterns in GUI
Appendix A Copyrights
Appendix B The Exercises
Appendix C Solutions to the Exercises
Appendix D The Examples
Appendix E The Figures
Appendix F Memory Game v1
Appendix G Memory Game v2
Appendix H Memory Game v3
Appendix I Conceptual index

“The Morph Book vol. I (Designing Graphical User Interfaces)” is for Cuis-Smalltalk (7.0 or later), a free and modern implementation of the Smalltalk language and environment.

Thanks to Ken Dickey, Thiago da Silva Lino, Stephen Smith for the reviews of the book, suggestions and borrowed texts. Your help is very valuable.

Compilation : April 29, 2026

Documentation source: https://github.com/DrCuis/DesignGUI

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