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C++ Windows Programming

C++ Windows Programming

By : Stefan Björnander
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C++ Windows Programming

C++ Windows Programming

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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++.
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1. Introduction

Standard dialogs

In Windows, it's possible to define dialogs. Unlike windows, dialogs are intended to be populated with controls such as buttons, boxes, and text fields. A dialog may be modal, which means that the other windows of the application become disabled until the dialog is closed. In the next chapter, we will look into how we build our own dialogs.

However, in this section, we will look into the Windows standard dialogs for saving and opening files, choosing fonts and colors, and printing. Small Windows supports standard dialogs by wrapping the Win32 API function, which provides us with the dialogs.

The Save dialog

The SaveDialog function displays the standard Save dialogs.

The Save dialog

The filter parameters filter the file types to be displayed. Each file format is defined in two parts: the text displayed in the dialog and the default file suffix. The parts are separated by a zero character and the filter is terminated with two zero characters. For instance, consider the following:

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