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Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example

Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example

By : Stefan Bjornander
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Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example

Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example

3.7 (21)
By: Stefan Bjornander

Overview of this book

The book is ideal for programmers who have worked with C++ or other Windows-based programming languages. It provides developers with everything they need to build complex desktop applications using C++. If you have already learned the C++ language, and want to take your programming to the next level, then this book is ideal for you.
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Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
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Index

The Resource


The Application Wizard creates a basic set of menus, which are used by the Application Framework. We add the menus Add and Format to the resource with the help of the Resource Editor.

It is also possible to use the Resource Editor to add accelerators. The Application Wizard has already added accelerators to some of the menu items it generated. We will add accelerators to the menu item we have added. One advantage is that we can reuse the menu item identifiers above to represent accelerators. This means that the Application Framework will call the same method, no matter if the user has selected the menu item or the accelerator. We can also reuse the same identifiers to represent a button in a toolbar. The Application Wizard creates a default toolbar we can increase.

We can also add a status line and a tool tip with the help of the string table. The string connected to the identifier is divided into two parts by a new line (\n). The first part is the status line and the second...

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