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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

The circle application

In this section, we look into a simple circle application. As the name implies, it enables the user to handle circles in a graphical application. The user can add a new circle by pressing the left mouse button. The user can also move an existing circle by dragging it. Moreover, the user can change the color of a circle as well as save and open the document:

The circle application

The main window

As we will see throughout this book, the MainWindow function always does the same thing: it sets the application name and creates the main window of the application. The name is used by the Save and Open standard dialogs, the About menu item, and the registry.

The difference between the main window and other windows of the application is that, when the user closes the main window, the application exits. Moreover, when the user selects the Exit menu item, the main window is closed, and its destructor is called:

MainWindow.cpp

#include "..\\SmallWindows\\SmallWindows.h" 
#include "Circle...
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