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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 registry


The static write, read, and erase methods in the Registry class operate on values of the Integer, Double, Boolean, and String types, as well as memory blocks in the Windows Registry.

Registry.h:

namespace SmallWindows { 
  class Registry { 
    public: 
      static void WriteInteger(String key, const int value); 
      static void WriteDouble(String key, const double value); 
      static void WriteBoolean(String key, const bool value); 
      static void WriteString(String key, const String text); 

      static void WriteBuffer(String key, const void* buffer, 
                              int size); 
 
      static int ReadInteger(String key, const int defaultValue); 
      static double ReadDouble(String key, 
                               const double defaultValue); 
      static bool ReadBoolean(String key, 
                              const bool defaultValue); 
      static String ReadString...