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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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Chapter 4. Working with Shapes and Figures

In this chapter, we develop a program capable of drawing lines, arrows, rectangles, and ellipses. The application can be viewed as a more advanced version of the circle application. Similar to the circle application, we have a list of figures and we catch the user's mouse actions. However, there are four different kinds of figures: lines, arrows, rectangles, and ellipses. They are defined in a class hierarchy that is similar to but more advanced than the hierarchy in the Tetris game. Moreover, we also introduce cut, copy, paste, cursor control, and registry handling:

Working with Shapes and Figures

The user can add new figures, move one or several figures, modify figures by grabbing their endpoints, mark and unmark figures by pressing the mouse button and the Ctrl key, and mark several figures by enclosing them by a rectangle. When a figure is marked, it becomes annotated with small black squares. The user can modify the shape of a figure by grabbing one of the...

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