Using this tutorial

To help you learn about the many features provided by the Presentation framework, this tutorial is broken into individual steps. Each step adds new functionality to the program and ends with an executable version.

The development steps described in this tutorial are:

Creating a data model and a view
Adding support for mouse-event handling
Creating undoable commands and selections
Maintaining, manipulating, and highlighting a current selection
Adding menus
Creating a mouse interactor
Supporting cut, copy, paste, and embedding operations
Supporting drag and drop operations

The documentation for each step contains:

Design information pertaining to the tutorial program, Tiles (see "Tiles--the tutorial program" on page 3 for a description of the program)
General information on Presentation framework features
Annotated code

The code listings contain a snapshot of the code at each stage. You can examine it to understand specific coding issues, and even enter, compile, and run it. If you only want an overview of the framework and basic program structure, just skip the code listings, located at the end of the documentation for each step.

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