Chapter 5 -- Implementing Application Behaviors

Chapter 5

About This Chapter

In Chapter 4, you learned how you could use features of the Microsoft Visual C++ programming environment to construct a user interface for your application without writing more than a few lines of code. One of the advantages of a visual programming environment is that you can quickly and easily implement the user interface you have designed.

In this chapter, you will learn about some MFC programming techniques you can use to implement the operational behavior of an application. You will learn how to use of the dialog box classes that you constructed in Chapter 4 and how to take advantage of the multithreading capabilities of the Win32 platform. You will also learn more about the techniques used to send application data to an on-screen window or a printer, and how to implement Help for an MFC application.

Before You Begin

Before you start this chapter, you should have read Chapters 2 through 4, and completed the exercises in the text.