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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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Auxiliary classes

A document in this application is made up of pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters. Let me try to explain how it all hangs together:

  • First of all, the document is made up of a list of characters. Each character has its own font and pointers to the paragraph and line it belongs to. The character information is stored in objects of the CharInfo class. The charList field in the WordDocument class is a list of CharInfo objects.
  • The characters are divided into paragraphs. A paragraph does not hold its own character list. Instead, it holds the indexes in the character list of its first and last characters. The paragraphList field in WordDocument is a list of Paragraph objects. The last character of each paragraph is always a newline.
  • Each paragraph is divided into a list of lines. The Paragraph class below holds a list of Line objects. A line holds the indexes of its first and last characters relative to the beginning of the paragraph.
  • Finally, the document is also divided into...
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