Windows programming

Author: Charles Petzold
ISBN: 83-87216-90-9
1296 pages
Hardcover
Publisher: RM

About the book

The best-known, best and most used programming book in the world.

"Look Petzold" is a sentence that ends many conversations about programming in the Windows environment. In the fifth
American, and the second Polish edition of Windows Programming, the winner of the prestigious Windows Pioneer Award
updated the text on issues related to the latest versions of the Windows operating system - once again
reaching the heart of Win32 API programming.

It discusses, among others:

• basics - dialog boxes, data entry
• Unicode
• graphics - drawing, text, fonts, bitmaps and metafiles
• kernel and printer
• sound and music
• hyperlinked libraries
• multitasking and multithreading
• programming for the Internet and intranet
• multi-document interface
  
  Full of examples, the book is the source of all knowledge for all programmers, regardless of their level
  sophistication who deal with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT. No one can do without it
  self-respecting IT specialist.
  
  

  Table of Contents:

  
  

  Part I: Basics

  Chapter 1: We start

  
  Windows environment
• Windows history
• Windows features
• Dynamic linking
  Windows programming options
• API and memory models
• Programming language options
• Programming environment
• API documentation
  The first windows program
• Character mode
• Windows equivalent
• Header files
• The starting point of the program
• The MessageBox function
• Compiling, connecting and running
  

  Chapter 2: Introduction to Unicode

  
  A short history of character sets
• American standards
• Other languages
• ASCII extension
• Double-byte character set
• Rescue in Unicode
  Wide characters and C
• Data type char
• Wider signs
• Functions of the wide character library
• Maintaining a single source
  Wide characters and Windows
• Types of Windows header files
• Windows function calls
• Functions of string support in Windows
• Using printf in Windows
• Formatting the message window
• Multilingualism and this book
  

  Chapter 3: Windows and messages

  
  Own window
• Architecture review
• The HELLOWIN program
• Global thinking
• Window class registration
• Creating a window
• Displaying the window
• Message loop
• Window procedure
• Message processing
• Playing a sound file
• WM_PAINT message
• WM_DESTROY message
  Obstacles in Windows programming
• Do not call me, I will call you
• Queued and non-queued messages
• Fast entry and exit
  

  Chapter 4: Displaying text

  
  Painting and refreshing
• WM_PAINT message
• Rectangles approved and annulled
  Introduction to GDI
• Device context
• Getting the device context handle. The first way
• The structure of information about painting
• Getting the device context handle. Second method
• TextOut function? details
• System font
• The size of the sign
• Sizes of the text? details
• Text formatting
• Putting everything together
• Window procedure in SYSMETS1.C
• Lack of space
• The size of the workspace
  Scroll bars
• Range and position of the scroll bar
• Scroll bar messages
• Scrolling SYSMETS
• Adapting the program for painting
  Correcting the scroll
• Information functions of scroll bars
• How to scroll minimally?
• New SYSMETS
• I do not like mice
  

  Chapter 5: The basics of graphics

  
  GDI structure
• GDI philosophy
• Calls to the GDI function
• The basic elements of GDI
• Other elements of GDI
  Device context
• Downloading the device context handle
• Getting information about the device's context
• DEVCAPS1 program
• The size of the device
• Information about colors
• Device context attributes
• Memorizing the device's context
  Drawing points and lines
• Highlighting pixels
  Straight lines
• Border functions
• Béziera spline curves
• Using standard pens
• Creating, selecting and removing pens
• Filling the breaks
• Drawing modes
  Drawing filled areas
• Polygon function and polygon filling mode
• Painting the interior
  GDI map modes
• Device coordinates and logical coordinates
• Device coordinate systems
  View and window
• Working in MM_TEXT mode
• Metrical mapping modes
• ? Customizable? mapping modes
• The WHATSIZE program
  Rectangles, regions and clipping
• Work with rectangles
• Randomly drawn rectangles
• Creating and painting regions
• Trimming with rectangles and regions
• CLOVER program
  

  Chapter 6: Keyboard

  
  Basic information
• Ignoring the keyboard
• Who has the focus
• Queues and synchronization
• Keys and characters
  Keyboard messages
• System and non-system keys
• Virtual key codes
• Information provided by lParam
• The states of the [Shift] key
• Using messages related to pressing keys
• Enriching SYSMETS with keyboard support
  Character messages
• Four character messages
• The order of messages
• Pressed keys and characters
• Messages of dead characters
  Keyboard messages and character sets
• KEYVIEW1 program
• The problem with national keyboards
• Character sets and fonts
• And what about Unicode?
• TrueType and large fonts
  Ambulance (not a cursor)
• Functions of the carriage
• TYPER program
  

  Chapter 7: Mouse

  
  The Basics
• Several quick definitions
  Mouse messages for the workspace
• Simple mouse message processing: example
• Support for special keys
• Double clicks
  Mouse messages not related to the workspace
• The test message to hit the periphery of the window
• Messages generating messages
  Testing hits in your programs
• A hypothetical example
• Sample program
• Mouse emulation using the keyboard
• Adding the keyboard interface to the CHECKER program
• Use child windows to test hits
• Child windows in the CHECKER program
• Child windows and keyboard
  Capturing the mouse
• Blocking the pro-angle
• Interception
• BLOKOUT2 program
  Mouse wheel What's next?
  

  Chapter 8: Clock

  
  Basic information about the clock
• System and clock
• Clock messages are not asynchronous
  Clock: three methods of use
• Method one
• Second method
• Third method
  Use of the clock
• Digital clock
• Downloading the current time
• Displaying numbers and colons
• Be a globalist
• Analog clock
  Clock and reports
  

  Chapter 9: Controls of the child window

  
  The class of buttons
• Creating child windows
• Communication between controls and the parent window
• Communication between the parent window and controls
• Classic buttons (pressed)
• Check boxes
• Option buttons
• Group fields
• Modification of the button text
• Visible and available buttons
• Buttons and focus
  Controls and colors
• System colors
• Button colors
• WM_CTLCOLORBTN message
• Buttons drawn by the program
  Static class Scroll bar class
• The COLORS1 program
• Automatic keyboard interface
• Creating a window subclass
• Background coloring
• Coloring scrollbars and static texts
  Edition class
• Editing class styles
• Notification codes for the edit control
• Use the edit control
• Messages sent to the edit control
  Listbox class
• List box styles
• Place strings in the list box
• Selecting and downloading list items
• Messages sent through the list box
• A simple application with a list field
• List of files
• HEAD for Windows
  

  Chapter 10: Menus and other resources

  
  Icons, cursors, strings and user resources
• Adding an icon to the program
• Obtaining the icon handle
• Using icons in the program
• Using your own cursors
• Strings as resources
• User resources
  Menu
• Menu assumptions
• Menu structure
• Defining the menu
• Appealing to the menu in the program
• Menus and messages
• Sample program
• Conventions on the menu
• Defining the menu? harder way
• Movable drop-down menu (pop-up menu)
• Using the system menu
• Changing the menu
• Other menu commands
• A custom approach to the menu
  Shortcut keys
• Why use the shortcut keys
• Some rules for assigning shortcuts
• Table of shortcuts
• Loading shortcut table
• Translation of keystrokes
• Receiving keyboard messages
• POPPAD program with menus and hot keys
• Providing menu items
• Processing menu options
  

  Chapter 11: Dialog boxes

  
  Modal dialog boxes
• Creating the About dialog
• Dialog window and its template
• The dialog box procedure
• Displaying the dialog
• Variations on the subject
• More complex dialogs
• Work with controls in the dialog
• OK and Cancel buttons
• Avoidance of global variables
• Groups and places of transition with a tab
• Drawing in a dialog
• Using other functions with dialogs
• Defining your own controls
  Non-modal dialog boxes
• Differences between modal and non-modal dialog boxes
• The COLORS program in the new version
• The HEXCALC program: a regular window or a dialog?
  Standard dialogs
• A new version of the POPPAD program
• Input / output operations on Unicode files
• Change the font
• Search and replace
• A Windows program containing only one function call
  

  Chapter 12: Clipboard

  
  Simple use of the clipboard
• Standard clipboard data formats
• Memory allocation
• Moving text to the clipboard
• Downloading text from the clipboard
• Opening and closing the clipboard
• Clipboard and Unicode
  In addition to the standard applications of the clipboard
• Using several data elements
• Delayed transfer
• Own data formats
  Create a clipboard preview
• Preview chain of the clipboard
• Functions and preview messages of the clipboard
• Simple clipboard preview
  

  Part II: Graphics

  Chapter 13: Printing

  
  Basics of printing
• Printing and buffering
• The context of the printing device
• Extended DEVCAPS program
• Calling PrinterProperties
• Checking the BitBlt features
• The simplest printing program
  Printing graphics and text
• Contour printing
• Canceling the printout and the Abort procedure
• How Windows uses AbortProc
• Implementation of the AbortProc procedure
• Creating the Printing dialog
• Printing in POPPAD programs
  

  Chapter 14: Bitmaps and BitBlits

  
  Basic information about bitmaps
• Where do bitmaps come from?
  Sizes of bitmaps
• Color and bitmap
• Real devices
• Support for bitmaps in GDI
  Bit blocks transfer
• Simple BitBlt
• Stretching bitmaps
• StretchBlt mode
• Raster operations
• Blt pattern
  A GDI bitmap object
• DDB creation
• Bitmap bits
• The context of the storage device
• Loading bitmaps from resources
• The monochrome bitmap format
• Bitmap brushes
• Drawing on bitmaps
• Shadow bitmap
• The use of bitmaps in the menu
• Non-rectangular bitmap images
• Simple animation
• Bitmaps outside the window
  

  Chapter 15: Device-independent bitmap

  
  DIB file format
• DIB in OS / 2 style
• Upside down!
• DIB pixel bits
• Extended DIB Windows format
• Reality
• DIB compression
• Color masking
• Header of version 4
• Header of version 5
• Displaying DIB information
  Display and printing
• Interior penetration DIB
• Pixel per pixel
• A world of DIB set on the head
• Sequential display
• Stretching and matching
• Color conversion, palette and speed of action
  Connection of DIB and DDB
• DDB creation with DIB
• From DDB to DIB
• The DIB section
• More about the dissimilarity of the DIB section
• File mapping option
• Summary
  

  Chapter 16: Palette Manager

  
  The use of palettes
• Video equipment
• Displaying shades of gray
• Palette messages
• Index palette
• Inquiry about the possibility of handling the palette
• System palette
• Other palette functions
• The problem of raster actions
• Looking at the system palette
• Palette animation
• Bouncing ball
• Animation of one pallet position
• Engineering applications
  Palettes and real images
• Pallets and packed DIB
• Multitasking palette
• Halftone palette
• Indexing of the color palette
• Palettes and bitmap objects
• Pallets and DIB sections
  DIB service library
• DIBSTRUCT structure
• Information functions
• Reading and saving pixels
• Creating and converting a DIB section
• DIBHELP header file and macros
• The DIBBLE program
  Simple pallets; optimal palettes
• Format conversion
  

  Chapter 17: Text and fonts

  
  Simple display of text
• Text drawing functions
• Device context attributes for text
• Backup fonts
  Fonts? basic information
• Types of fonts
• TrueType fonts
• Attributes or styles?
• Point size
• Line spacing and spacing
• The problem of a logical inch
  Logic font
• Creating and selecting a logical font
• PICKFONT program
• The structure of the logical font
• Font mapping algorithm
• Obtaining information about the font
• Character sets and Unicode
• EZFONT system
• Rotating the font
  Font calculation
• Enumerating functions
• ChooseFont dialog box
  Paragraph formatting
• Simple text formatting
• Work with paragraphs
• Print Preview
  A bit of funny and fanciful effects
• GDI path
• Pens with extended capabilities
• Four sample programs
  

  Chapter 18: Metafiles

  
  Old metafile format
• Simple application of metafiles stored in memory
• Saving metafiles on a disk
• Old format metafile and clipboard
  Extended metafiles
• Basic procedure
• Let's look inside
• Metafiles and GDI objects
• Metafiles and bitmaps
• Metafile calculation
• Embedding images
• Preview metafile extended and printouts
• View details in metafiles
• Scaling and proportions of sizes
• Mapping and metafile modes
• Mapping and playback
  

  Part III: Advanced issues

  Chapter 19: Multi-document interface

  
  The concept of MDI
• MDI elements
• MDI support
  An example of MDI implementation
• Three menus
• Program initialization
• Creating child windows
• Processing the message More windows
• Child windows, document windows
• cleaning
  

  Chapter 20: Multitasking and multithreading

  
  History of multitasking
• Multitasking in DOS?
• Multitasking without expropriation
• Presentation manager and serial message queue
• Multithreaded solution
• Multi-threaded architecture
• Difficulty of threads
• The advantage of Windows
• Novelty! Improved formula! Available with threads!
  Multithreading in Windows
• Random rectangles once again
• Task from the Microsoft programming competition
• Multithreaded solution
• Any problems?
• The benefits of sleep
  Thread synchronization
• Critical section
  Event signaling
• BIGJOB1 program
• Event object
  Local thread memory (TLS)
  

  Chapter 21: Dynamic libraries

  
  Basic information about libraries
• Library? on-River
• An example DLL
• Library entry and exit point
• Test program
• Dynamic libraries and common memory
• The STRPROG program
• Data sharing by STRPROG instances
  Different topics related to dynamic libraries
• Dynamic consolidation without import
• Libraries with the same resources
  

  Chapter 22: Sound and music

  
  Windows and multimedia
• Multimedia systems devices
• API review
• We are exploring MCI? the TESTMCI program
• MCITEXT a CD audio
  Wave sound
• Sound and waveform
• Code and pulse modulation
• Sampling frequency
• The size of the sample
• Software generation of sinusoidal signals
• Digital audio player
• An alternative solution using MCI
• Solution with MCI character commands
• Wave file format
• Experiments with additive synthesis
• Wake up using wave sounds
  MIDI music
• MIDI operation
• Program change
• MIDI channels
• MIDI messages
• Introduction to the MIDI sequence
• Simulating a MIDI synthesizer from a PC keyboard
• MIDI drum machine
• Multimedia time-related functions
• Operations on RIFF files
  

  Chapter 23: The taste of the Internet

  
  Windows sockets
• Sockets a TCP / IP
• Network services related to time
• NETTIME program
  WinInet and FTP
• FTP API overview
• A program that demonstrates downloading files from an FTP server
  

  Index