Course Outline

Win32 API Programming

• Introduction To Windows Programming
  • A Program's Development Files
  • New Data Types & Hungarian Notation
  • A Windows Program
    • Program Entry Point
    • Registering the Window Class
    • Creating and Displaying the Window
    • The Message Loop
    • The Window Procedure
    • Processing Messages
• Displaying Text
  • The WM_PAINT Message
  • Valid and Invalid Rectangles
  • Device Contexts
    • BeginPaint/EndPaint
    • GetDC/ReleaseDC
  • TextOut()
  • Text Metrics
  • System Metrics
• Scroll Bars
  • Adding to a Window
  • Range and Position
  • Scroll Bar Messages
  • PAINTSTRUCT’s Invalid Rect
• The Graphics Device Interface (GDI)
  • The Device Context
    • Getting the Handle
    • Getting Device Capabilities
    • Saving and Restoring Contexts
  • RGB Color
  • Stock Pens
  • User-Created Pens
  • Selecting Objects
  • Drawing Lines
  • Background Colors, Modes, and ROP2’s
  • Bezier Splines
• Drawing Graphics
  • Stock Brushes
  • User-Created Brushes
  • Drawing Filled Areas
    • Rectangles and Ellipses
    • Polygons and Polygon Filling Modes
  • Regions
  • Rectangles, Regions, and Clipping
• GDI Mapping Modes
  • Device and Logical Coordinates
  • The Viewport and the Window
  • Text, Metric, English, Isotropic, and Anisotopic Modes
• Programs That Run During Dead Time
  • PeekMessage()
• Metafiles
  • In Memory
  • Storing in a Disk File
• Enhanced Metafiles
• Keyboard Input
  • Window Focus
  • Keystroke Messages
    • The wParam and lParam Parameters
    • Virtual Keycodes
  • Character Messages
  • Shift States
• Sending Messages
• Mouse Input
  • Client-Area Mouse Messages
  • Simultaneous Shift Keys Double-Clicks
• Emulating the Mouse with the Keyboard
• Child Windows and Mouse Input
  • Child Windows & Hit Testing
  • Capturing The Mouse
  • Changing the Cursor's Shape
• Child Window Controls
  • Parent-Child Communications
  • Buttons
    • Push, Check, Radio, Group
    • Checking and Enabling
  • Changing Child Window Text
  • Static Controls
  • The Edit Class
    • Styles
    • Parent Notification Codes
    • Messages to Edit Controls
  • ListBox Controls
    • Styles
    • Parent Notification Codes
    • Messages to ListBox Controls
  • Up-Down Controls
    • Styles
    • Notifications
    • Messages
• Visual Editing
• Compiling Resources
• Menus
  • Menu Template
  • Referencing Menus
  • Menus and Messages
  • Processing Menu Options
  • Enabling and Checking Menu Items
• Dialog Boxes
  • Dialog Box Template,
    • Styles, Options, and Descriptions
  • Dialog Box Procedure
  • Invoking Modal Dialog Boxes
  • Dialog Box Functions
• Message Boxes
• Common Dialog Boxes
  GetOpenFileName(), GetSaveFileName(), FindText(), ReplaceText(), ChooseColor(), ChooseFont()
• Creating Multiple Threads
  Windows’ Functions C Run-time Library Functions
• Suspending Thread Execution
• Sleep( )
• Setting Thread Priorities
• Synchronization of Threads
  • Critical Sections
  • Mutexes
  • Events
  • Semaphores
  • WaitForSingleObject( )
• Global Memory Functions
• Inter-Process Communication - The Clipboard
  • Standard Formats
  • Ownership
  • Transferring Text, Bitmaps and Metafiles
  • Multiple Data-type Items
  • Delayed Rendering
  • Private Data Formats
  • Memory Mapped Files
  • Pipes
• Dynamic Link Libraries
  • Building DLL's
  • DLL Entry and Exit Points
  • Import Libraries
  • Manual Loading at Run-time
  • Resource-Only Libraries

Win32 API Programming