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Concurrent Programming on Windows

ISBN: 032143482X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 1998
Pages: 112

Authors: Joe Duffy

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• Cover
• Author s Note
• Chapter 1 -- Getting Started
• The Windows Environment
• Windows Programming Options
• Your First Windows Program
• Chapter 2 -- An Introduction to Unicode
• A Brief History of Character Sets
• Wide Characters and C
• Wide Characters and Windows
• Chapter 3 -- Windows and Messages
• A Window of One s Own
• The Windows Programming Hurdles
• Chapter 4 -- An Exercise in Text Output
• Painting and Repainting
• An Introduction to GDI
• Scroll Bars
• Building a Better Scroll
• Chapter 5 -- Basic Drawing
• The Structure of GDI
• The Device Context
• Drawing Dots and Lines
• Drawing Filled Areas
• The GDI Mapping Mode
• Rectangles, Regions, and Clipping
• Chapter 6 -- The Keyboard
• Keyboard Basics
• Keystroke Messages
• Character Messages
• Keyboard Messages and Character Sets
• The Caret (Not the Cursor)
• Chapter 7 -- The Mouse
• Mouse Basics
• Client-Area Mouse Messages
• Nonclient-Area Mouse Messages
• Hit-Testing in Your Programs
• Capturing the Mouse
• The Mouse Wheel
• Chapter 8 -- The Timer
• Timer Basics
• Using the Timer: Three Methods
• Using the Timer for a Clock
• Using the Timer for a Status Report
• Chapter 9 -- Child Window Controls
• The Button Class
• Controls and Colors
• The Static Class
• The Scroll Bar Class
• The Edit Class
• The Listbox Class
• Chapter 10 -- Menus and Other Resources
• Icons, Cursors, Strings, and Custom Resources
• Menus
• Keyboard Accelerators
• Chapter 11 -- Dialog Boxes
• Modal Dialog Boxes
• Modeless Dialog Boxes
• The Common Dialog Boxes
• Chapter 12 -- The Clipboard
• Simple Use of the Clipboard
• Beyond Simple Clipboard Use
• Becoming a Clipboard Viewer
• Chapter 13-- Using the Printer
• Printing Fundamentals
• Printing Graphics and Text
• Chapter 14 -- Bitmaps and Bitblts
• Bitmap Basics
• Bitmap Dimensions
• The Bit-Block Transfer
• The GDI Bitmap Object
• Chapter 15 -- The Device-Independent Bitmap
• The DIB File Format
• Displaying and Printing
• The Union of DIBs and DDBs
• Chapter 16 -- The Palette Manager
• Using Palettes
• Palette Animation
• Palettes and Real-World Images
• A Library for DIBs
• Chapter 17 -- Text and Fonts
• Simple Text Output
• Background on Fonts
• The Logical Font
• Font Enumeration
• Paragraph Formatting
• The Fun and Fancy Stuff
• Chapter 18 -- Metafiles
• The Old Metafile Format
• Enhanced Metafiles
• Chapter 19 -- The Multiple-Document Interface
• MDI Concepts
• A Sample MDI Implementation
• Chapter 20 -- Multitasking and Multithreading
• Modes of Multitasking
• Windows Multithreading
• Thread Synchronization
• Event Signaling
• Thread Local Storage
• Chapter 21 -- Dynamic-Link Libraries
• Library Basics
• Miscellaneous DLL Topics
• Chapter 22 -- Sound and Music
• Windows and Multimedia
• Waveform Audio
• MIDI and Music
• Chapter 23 -- A Taste of the Internet
• Windows Sockets
• WinInet and FTP
• About the Author
• About This Electronic Book