Just to add to what Alan's said: A key thing you will need to wrap your head around when transitioning to GUI applications is the fact that the application is then not linear (or as linear) as a console/text application.
In a console application you basically control everything, and if there needs to be a loop in the application to repeatedly collect user actions or events (such as menu selections and so on) etc, then it's up to you to write this yourself. GUI applications are however different, in that the entire GUI system is "event driven". Conceptually what this means is that operating system is ultimately responsible for collecting events (such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and so on) and it delivers these events/actions to your application by sending it messages (which ultimately translates into functions and methods in your application being called, as if by magic, from the outside.) The upshot of this is, as Alan said, that in most GUI applications you don't write loops to "wait for input" yourself, you instead hand this off to the operating system. And it knows to call your methods by the fact that in some part of your application you "register your interest" in receiving various events, typically by providing an event handler (a method to be called when that event happens.) So conceptually, in a console application, you write the "main" loop yourself, and directly call other methods/functions when certain "events" happen (such as the user selecting a menu option.) In a GUI application, you can imagine this loop is somewhere inside the operating system (not inside your application), and so your application doesn't provide one itself, instead your application collaborates with the operating system to make your application happen. Object orientation conceptually is all about objects collaborating with other objects by sending and receiving messages, collectively working towards a solution. Hope that helps. Walter
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