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C++ Windows Programming

By : Stefan Björnander
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C++ Windows Programming

By: Stefan Björnander

Overview of this book

It is critical that modern developers have the right tools to build practical, user-friendly, and efficient applications in order to compete in today’s market. Through hands-on guidance, this book illustrates and demonstrates C++ best practices and the Small Windows object-oriented class library to ease your development of interactive Windows applications. Begin with a focus on high level application development using Small Windows. Learn how to build four real-world applications which focus on the general problems faced when developing graphical applications. Get essential troubleshooting guidance on drawing, spreadsheet, and word processing applications. Finally finish up with a deep dive into the workings of the Small Windows class library, which will give you all the insights you need to build your own object-oriented class library in C++.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
C++ Windows Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction

The Point class


The Point class is a small class holding the x and y position of a two-dimensional point:

Point.h

namespace SmallWindows { 
  class Point { 
    public: 

The default constructor initializes the x and y value to zero. The point can be initialized by, and assigned to, another point:

      Point(); 
      Point(int x, int y); 
      Point(const Point& point); 

Similar to the Size class mentioned earlier, Point uses the assignment operator:

      Point& operator=(const Point& point); 

Similar to SIZE in the preceding section, there is a POINT Win32 API structure. A Point object can be initialized by, and assigned to, a POINT structure, and a Point object can be converted to POINT:

      Point(const POINT& point); 
      Point& operator=(const POINT& point); 
      operator POINT() const; 

When comparing two points, the x values are first compared. If they are equal, the y values are then compared:

      bool...