Event Driven Programming

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Event Driven Programming

In the previous section, we saw how components are declared in ZUML (ZK User Interface Markup Language) to make up an application's user interface. Now we'll look into ZK's event driven programming model to make all the components in an application to work together to bring about functionality for our cause.

How Does Event Driven Programming Work in ZK

Event driven programming is widely adopted for responsive GUI experience. Each ZK component is acceptive of having event listeners registered to itself. A component registered with an event listener will listen to actions by a user or notifications forwarded by the ZK framework. Think of ZK components as a collection of nodes, while the events form the network channels needed to make the collection to work as a whole. Take this sample we saw in the previous section:



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