Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
ISBN: 0131473816
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
- 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
- Index
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Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets
ISBN: 0131473816
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 262
Pages: 262