It is critical that modern developers have the right tools to build practical, user-friendly, and efficient applications in order to compete in today’s market. Through hands-on guidance, this book illustrates and demonstrates C++ best practices and the Small Windows object-oriented class library to ease your development of interactive Windows applications.

Begin with a focus on high level application development using Small Windows. Learn how to build four real-world applications which focus on the general problems faced when developing graphical applications. Get essential troubleshooting guidance on drawing, spreadsheet, and word processing applications. Finally finish up with a deep dive into the workings of the Small Windows class library, which will give you all the insights you need to build your own object-oriented class library in C++.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Hello, Small World1

Chapter 3: Building a Tetris Application

Chapter 4: Working with Shapes and Figures

Chapter 5: The Figure Hierarchy

Chapter 6: Building a Word Processor

Chapter 7: Keyboard Input and Character Calculation

Chapter 8: Building a Spreadsheet Application

Chapter 9: Formula Interpretation

Chapter 10: The Framework

Chapter 11: The Document

Chapter 12: The Auxiliary Classes

Chapter 13: The Registry, Clipboard, Standard Dialogs, and Print Preview

Chapter 14: Dialogs, Controls, and Page Setup

Appendix: Rational and Complex Numbers

About the Author

Stefan Björnander holds a master's degree in computer science, and has worked with software development for many years. He has lectured on programming for the industry and universities. He has also authored Microsoft Visual C++ Windows Applications by Example for Packt Publishing, which gained great acclaim.