Part VI. Appendices

	Chapter 2 - A Quick Start Using the IDE
	Visual C++ 6: The Complete Reference
	Chris H. Pappas and William H. Murray, III

Copyright 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies

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	View Menu

	The View menu contains commands that enable you to change your view of the Query Designer (see Figure 2-4).

	Figure 2-4: The Visual C++ View menu

	Script Wizard...

	An easy way to get started with scripting is by using an HTML authoring tool like Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad. The ActiveX Control Pad is freely available for downloading from the authoring tools section in the Microsoft Site Builder Workshop, accessible through www.microsoft.com. You use the Script Wizard... option to begin the design of a VBScript or JavaScript. Once the Script Wizard... is launched, you first select the Default Script Language, next you Select an Event, Load, and then Insert Event.

	ClassWizard...

	The Microsoft C++ ClassWizard makes it easier for you to do repetitive tasks such as creating new classes, defining message handlers, overriding MFC virtual functions, and gathering data from controls in a dialog box, form view, or record view. One very important note is that the ClassWizard only works with applications that use MFC classes, unlike ClassView and WizardBar, which work with MFC, ATL, or your own classes. Also, ClassView does not recognize classes unless they are registered in the ClassView database file. These are files with a *.CLW file extension. With ClassWizard, you can do the following:

	•		Attach Automation methods and properties when creating a new class

	•		Author new classes from many of the main framework base classes that handle Windows messages and recordsets

	•		Author new message-handling member functions

	•		Declare member variables that automatically initialize, gather, and validate data entered into dialog boxes or form views

	•		Delete message-handling member functions

	•		Map messages to functions associated with windows, dialog boxes, controls, menu items, and accelerators

	•		See which messages have message handlers already defined and jump to the handler program code

	•		Work with existing classes and type libraries

	Resource Symbols... and Resource Includes...

	You will quickly discover that as your programs grow in size and sophistication, so will the number of resources and symbols. This makes tracking an ever-increasing number of symbols scattered throughout several files difficult. The Resource Symbols... and Resource Includes... options simplify symbol management by offering a central tool through which you can do the following:

	•		Modify the name and value of a symbol that is not in use

	•		Define new symbols

	•		Remove a symbol if it is not being used

	•		Quickly locate the appropriate resource editor where the symbol is being used

	•		Scan existing symbol definitions to see the value of each symbol, a list of symbols being used, and the resources assigned to each symbol

	Full Screen

	If you are like most programmers, when it comes to intense code authoring and/or editing, you like to see as much code at one time as possible. The Full Screen option is ideal for these situations, allowing you to zoom your edit window (or any other window, e.g., help screens) for maximum viewing.

	Workspace

	Imagine a desktop development environment. You have editors, compilers, manuals, Post-Its, textbooks, phone messages, and e-mail scattered across your desk and monitor, all of it relating to the project at hand. Try and think of the Workspace option as an electronic secretary trying to organize some of this information. The Workspace option opens the Workspace view (usually the upper-left portion of your screen), giving you instant access to the current classes, files, resources, and reference manuals most recently accessed. Switching layouts is as simple as clicking on the tabs found at the bottom of the Workspace view.

	Output

	The Output menu item brings the Output window to the foreground. The Output window contains progress reports on build, compile, and link processes, and it displays any generated warning or error messages.

	Debug Windows

	Choosing this option pops up a menu providing access to various integrated debugger options including: Watch Window, Register Window, Call Stack, Memory, Variables, and Disassembly Code.

	Refresh

	You use Refresh to repaint and update the currently active view pane in a similar manner to how pressing F5 in the Windows Explorer repaints and updates its contents.

	Properties

	If applicable, the Properties command displays current file statistics such as date created, file size, file type, editing characteristics, and much more, depending on the file’s type.

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