Hello World in APLX using .Net

As well as built-in classes for simple GUI programming, the Windows version of APLX also allows you to use Microsoft's .Net framework, giving you access to a large library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems.

Here is a simple "Hello World" example using .Net:

HelloWorld;Form;Button
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⍝ Simple demonstration of Hello World using .NET in APLX
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⍝ Create main form
Form←'.net' ⎕NEW 'Form'
Form.Text←'Hello World in APLX using .NET'
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⍝ Create button
Button←'.net' ⎕NEW 'Button'
Button.Size←Form.Size
Button.Text←'Hello World'
Button.Font←'.net' ⎕NEW 'Font' 'Arial Black' 48
Form.Controls.Add Button
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⍝ Add callback
Form.Closed←'"Cleaning up.." ⋄ →'
Button.Click←'Form.Close'
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⍝ Make the button accept Enter as equivalent to clicking
Form.AcceptButton←Button
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⍝ Show the form
Form.Show
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⍝ Process events
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This function created the following window when you run it, containing a single large button. The function terminates when the user clicks the button.

There are more examples of using .NET classes from APLX.

CategoryHelloWorld - CategoryAplx - CategoryDotnet