Advanced Win32 API Programming
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Overview
- Advanced Win32 Application Programming is the completion of an in-depth, low-level look at developing and debugging applications written for the Win32 Programming Interface. As with the Win32 API class, the intent is to understand the underlying philosophy and methods of direct API programming so that programmers can not only use system functions, but also use higher level tools more expertly.
- Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Create and use application resources like pop-up menus, icons, cursors, keyboard accelerators, and modeless dialog boxes.
- Manipulate bitmaps, fonts, paths, and other GUI components.
- Print, including creating printer device contexts and printer abort dialog boxes.
- Use modern interface controls like toolbars and property sheets.
- Communicate between processes using Dynamic Data Exchange and pipes.
- Implement Multiple Document Interface applications.
- Control virtual memory.
- Interact with the Registry.
- Use the system’s Structured Exception Handling capabilities
Course prerequisites
Win32 API class or equivalent.
Course outline
- Private (Window and Class) Contexts
- Paths
- Extended Pens
- Device Independent Bitmaps
- DIB Files and Packed DIB’s
- Display Functions
- Conversion Functions
- Reading in DIB’s
- Memory Device Contexts
- Device Dependent Bitmaps
- DDB Blt Functions
- Creating Bitmaps From Device Contexts
- Creating Bitmaps From Other Bitmaps
- Text and Fonts
- Text Drawing Functions
- Device Context Attributes for Text
- Stock Fonts
- Creating, Selecting, and Deleting Logical Fonts
- Font Common Dialog Box
- Formatting Text
- The Caret vs. The Cursor
- Window Focus Messages
- The Timer
- SetTimer(), KillTimer(), and WM_TIMER
- Timer Call-Backs
- Windows' Current (System) Time
- Child Window Controls
- System Colors
- WM_CTLCOLORBTN,
- WM_CTLCOLORSCROLLBAR and WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC messages
- Window Subclassing
- Icons and Cursors (and Bitmaps and Strings)
- Creating and Using Icons
- Drawing Icons
- Changing Cursors
- Bitmap and String Resources
- Menus
- Popup Menus
- System Menus
- Changing the Menu
- Other Menu Commands
- Keyboard Accelerators
- Accelerator Tables
- Loading Accelerator Tables
- Accelerator Messages
- WM_CLOSE and WM_QUERYENDSESSION
- Dialog Boxes
- Modeless Dialog Boxes
- Virtual Memory Management
- Common Controls
- Library Initialization
- Creating
- Styles
- Notification Messages
- Toolbars
- Common Controls
- Property Pages
- Property Sheets
- Printing I
- Steps to Printing
- Printer Device Contexts
- OpenPrinter(), DocumentProperties(), and ClosePrinter()
- StartDoc(), StartPage(), EndPage(), and EndDoc()
- Printing II
- The Abort() Procedure
- The "Abort Print" Dialog Box
- Printer Common Dialog Box
- Printers and Fonts
- Dynamic Data Exchange I
- Types of Links
- DDE Management Library
- Transactions & Callback Function
- Service, Topic, Item Names
- System Topic
- Server Name Registration
- String Management
- DDE Server
- Dynamic Data Exchange II
- DDE Management Library
- Conversation Management
- Data Management
- Transaction Management
- Error Detection
- DDE Client
- DDE Management Library
- Multiple Document Interface I
- Frame Window
- Client Window
- Document (Child) Windows
- The TranslateMDISysAccel() Function
- Initialization
- Multiple Document Interface II
- Manipulating Menus
- Creating Document Windows
- MDI Messages and Message Processing
- Exception Handling
- Windows File I/O Functions
- Pipes
- Registry Functions