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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

Summary


In this chapter, you started to develop a word processor capable of handling individual characters. The word processor supports the following:

  • Individual font and style of each character

  • Left, center, right, and justified alignment of each paragraph

  • Paragraphs that are distributed over the pages

  • Scrolling and zooming

  • Touchscreen

  • Cut, copy, and paste with ASCII or Unicode text, as well as application-specific generic information

In Chapter 7, Keyboard Input and Character Calculation, we will continue with the keyboard input and character calculation.