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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

Custom dialogs


The Dialog class handles a set of controls, which are added to the dialog by the AddControl method. For a subclass of the Dialog class, refer to PageSetupDialog in the last section of this chapter. The Dialog class provides a modal dialog, which means that all other windows in the application become disabled until the dialog is closed.

The user may navigate between controls with the Tab key and between radio buttons in the same group with the arrow keys. They can also use mnemonics to access controls.

Dialog.h

namespace SmallWindows { 

The dialogMap field is used by DialogProc to look up the dialog receiving the messages:

  extern map<HWND,Dialog*> dialogMap; 
  extern Font DialogFont; 

The Dialog class is a subclass of Window even though it calls the default Window constructor, which does not call the Win32 API function CreateWindowEx. Instead, DoModal collects information about the dialog and its controls and calls the Win32 API function DialogBoxIndirectParam...