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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++.

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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
C++ Windows Programming
C++ Windows Programming
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Dedication
Dedication
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction
Introduction
The library
Summary
2
Hello, Small World!
Hello, Small World!
Hello, Small Windows!
The circle application
Summary
3
Building a Tetris Application
Building a Tetris Application
The MainWindow function
The Tetris window
The TetrisFigure class
The GameGrid class
Summary
4
Working with Shapes and Figures
Working with Shapes and Figures
The MainWindow function
The DrawDocument class
Summary
5
The Figure Hierarchy
The Figure Hierarchy
The DrawFigure class
The LineFigure class
The ArrowFigure class
The RectangleFigure class
The EllipseFigure class
Summary
6
Building a Word Processor
Building a Word Processor
Auxiliary classes
The MainWindow class
The WordDocument class
Summary
7
Keyboard Input and Character Calculation
Keyboard Input and Character Calculation
Keyboard handling
Character calculation
Summary
8
Building a Spreadsheet Application
Building a Spreadsheet Application
The MainWindow class
The CalcDocument class
Source and target sets
Graph searching
Error handling
Summary
9
Formula Interpretation
Formula Interpretation
Formula interpretation
Matrix and reference
The cell
Further reading
Summary
10
The Framework
The Framework
An overview of Small Windows
"Hello" window for the Win32 API
The MainWindow function
The WinMain function
The Application class
The Window class
The Graphics class
Summary
11
The Document
The Document
The Document class
The Menu class
The Accelerator class
The StandardDocument class
Summary
12
The Auxiliary Classes
The Auxiliary Classes
The Size class
The Point class
The Rect class
The Color class
The Font class
The Cursor class
The DynamicList class
The Tree class
The InfoList class
Strings
Summary
13
The Registry, Clipboard, Standard Dialogs, and Print Preview
The Registry, Clipboard, Standard Dialogs, and Print Preview
The registry
The Clipboard class
Standard dialogs
Print preview
Summary
14
Dialogs, Controls, and Page Setup
Dialogs, Controls, and Page Setup
Custom dialogs
Controls
Converters
Page setup
Summary
Rational and Complex Numbers
Rational and Complex Numbers
Rational numbers
Complex numbers
Summary

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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