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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 Font class


The Font class is a wrapper class for the Win32 API LOGFONT structure. The structure holds a large set of properties; however, we only take into consideration the fields for the font's name and size and whether the font is italic, bold, or underlined; the other fields are set to zero. The system font is the font where all fields in the LOGFONT structure are set to zero, which results in the standard font of the system. Finally, the Font class also includes a Color object.

Font.h

namespace SmallWindows { 
  class Font; 
  extern const Font SystemFont; 
 
  class Font { 
    public: 

The default constructor sets the name to the empty string and all other values to zero, resulting in the system font, usually 10 points Arial. The size of the font is given in typographic points (1 point = 1/72 of an inch = 1/72 * 25.4 mm ≈ 0.35 mm). A font can also be initialized by, or assigned to, another font:

      Font(); 
      Font(String name, int size...