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Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets

ISBN: 0131473816
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 262

Authors: Julian Smart, Kevin Hock, Stefan Csomor

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• Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Bruce Perens Open Source Series
• About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
• Foreword
• Preface
• Who This Book Is For
• The CD-ROM
• How to Use This Book
• Conventions
• Chapter Summary
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Chapter1.Introduction
• What Is wxWidgets?
• Why Use wxWidgets?
• A Brief History of wxWidgets
• The wxWidgets Community
• wxWidgets and Object-Oriented Programming
• License Considerations
• The wxWidgets Architecture
• Summary
• Chapter2.Getting Started
• A Small wxWidgets Sample
• The Application Class
• The Frame Class
• The Event Handlers
• The Frame Constructor
• The Whole Program
• Compiling and Running the Program
• Program Flow
• Summary
• Chapter3.Event Handling
• Event-Driven Programming
• Event Tables and Handlers
• Skipping Events
• Pluggable Event Handlers
• Dynamic Event Handlers
• Window Identifiers
• Defining Custom Events
• Summary
• Chapter4.Window Basics
• Anatomy of a Window
• A Quick Guide to the Window Classes
• Base Window Classes
• Top-Level Windows
• Container Windows
• Non-Static Controls
• Static Controls
• Menus
• Control Bars
• Summary
• Chapter5.Drawing and Printing
• Understanding Device Contexts
• Drawing Tools
• Device Context Drawing Functions
• Using the Printing Framework
• 3D Graphics with wxGLCanvas
• Summary
• Chapter6.Handling Input
• Mouse Input
• Handling Keyboard Events
• Handling Joystick Events
• Summary
• Chapter7.Window Layout Using Sizers
• Layout Basics
• Sizers
• Programming with Sizers
• Further Layout Issues
• Summary
• Chapter8.Using Standard Dialogs
• Informative Dialogs
• File and Directory Dialogs
• Choice and Selection Dialogs
• Entry Dialogs
• Printing Dialogs
• Summary
• Chapter9.Writing Custom Dialogs
• Steps in Creating a Custom Dialog
• An Example: PersonalRecordDialog
• Adapting Dialogs for Small Devices
• Further Considerations in Dialog Design
• Using wxWidgets Resource Files
• Summary
• Chapter10.Programming with Images
• Image Classes in wxWidgets
• Programming with wxBitmap
• Programming with wxIcon
• Programming with wxCursor
• Programming with wxImage
• Image Lists and Icon Bundles
• Customizing Art in wxWidgets
• Summary
• Chapter11.Clipboard and Drag and Drop
• Data Objects
• Using the Clipboard
• Implementing Drag and Drop
• Summary
• Chapter12.Advanced Window Classes
• wxTreeCtrl
• wxListCtrl
• wxWizard
• wxHtmlWindow
• wxGrid
• wxTaskBarIcon
• Writing Your Own Controls
• Summary
• Chapter13.Data Structure Classes
• Why Not STL?
• Strings
• wxArray
• wxList and wxNode
• wxHashMap
• Storing and Processing Dates and Times
• Helper Data Structures
• Summary
• Chapter14.Files and Streams
• File Classes and Functions
• Stream Classes
• Summary
• Chapter15.Memory Management, Debugging, and Error Checking
• Memory Management Basics
• Detecting Memory Leaks and Other Errors
• Facilities for Defensive Programming
• Error Reporting
• Providing Run-Time Type Information
• Using wxModule
• Loading Dynamic Libraries
• Exception Handling
• Debugging Tips
• Summary
• Chapter16.Writing International Applications
• Introduction to Internationalization
• Providing Translations
• Character Encodings and Unicode
• Numbers and Dates
• Other Media
• A Simple Sample
• Summary
• Chapter17.Writing Multithreaded Applications
• When to Use Threads, and When Not To
• Using wxThread
• Synchronization Objects
• The wxWidgets Threads Sample
• Alternatives to Multithreading
• Summary
• Chapter18.Programming with wxSocket
• Socket Classes and Functionality Overview
• Introduction to Sockets and Basic Socket Processing
• Socket Flags
• Using Socket Streams
• Alternatives to wxSocket
• Summary
• Chapter19.Working with Documents and Views
• DocumentView Basics
• Other DocumentView Capabilities
• Strategies for Implementing UndoRedo
• Summary
• Chapter20.Perfecting Your Application
• Single Instance or Multiple Instances?
• Modifying Event Handling
• Reducing Flicker
• Implementing Online Help
• Parsing the Command Line
• Storing Application Resources
• Invoking Other Applications
• Managing Application Settings
• Application Installation
• Following UI Design Guidelines
• Summary
• AppendixA.Installing wxWidgets
• Choosing Your Development Tools
• Downloading and Unpacking wxWidgets
• ConfigurationBuild Options
• WindowsMicrosoft Visual Studio
• WindowsMicrosoft Visual C Command Line
• WindowsBorland C
• WindowsMinGW with MSYS
• WindowsMinGW without MSYS
• Linux, Unix, and Mac OS XGCC
• Modifying Setup.h for Further Customizations
• Rebuilding After Updating wxWidgets Files
• Using Contrib Libraries
• AppendixB.Building Your Own wxWidgets Applications
• WindowsMicrosoft Visual Studio
• LinuxKDevelop
• Mac OS XXcode
• Any PlatformMakefiles
• Cross-Platform Builds Using Bakefile
• Using wx-config
• wxWidgets Symbols and Headers
• AppendixC.Creating Applications with DialogBlocks
• What is DialogBlocks?
• Installing DialogBlocks
• The DialogBlocks Interface
• The DialogBlocks Sample Project
• Compiling the Sample
• Creating a New Project
• Creating a Dialog
• Creating a Frame
• Creating an Application Object
• Debugging Your Application
• Further Information
• AppendixD.Other Features in wxWidgets
• Further Window Classes
• ODBC Classes
• MIME Types Manager
• Network Functionality
• Multimedia Classes
• Embedded Web Browsers
• Accessibility
• OLE Automation
• Renderer Classes
• Event Loops
• AppendixE.Third-Party Tools for wxWidgets
• Language Bindings
• Tools
• Add-on Libraries
• AppendixF.wxWidgets Application Showcase
• AppendixG.Using the CD-ROM
• Browsing the CD-ROM
• The CD-ROM Contents
• AppendixH.How wxWidgets Processes Events
• AppendixI.Event Classes and Macros
• AppendixJ.Code Listings
• Custom Dialog Class Implementation
• wxWizard Sample Code
• AppendixK.Porting from MFC
• General Observations
• Feature Comparison
• Equivalent Functionality
• Further Information
• GLOSSARY
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