Programming Windows, Fifth Edition eBook
Using the Timer: Three Methods ..................................................................................... 373
Using the Timer for a Clock .............................................................................................. 382
Using the Timer for a Status Report ................................................................................ 397
Chapter 9 -- Child Window Controls ........................................................................................ 402
The Button Class .............................................................................................................. 404
Controls and Colors.......................................................................................................... 419
The Static Class ................................................................................................................ 431
The Scroll Bar Class .......................................................................................................... 432
The Edit Class ................................................................................................................... 446
The Listbox Class .............................................................................................................. 453
Chapter 10 -- Menus and Other Resources ............................................................................. 472
Icons, Cursors, Strings, and Custom Resources ............................................................... 472
Menus .............................................................................................................................. 497
Keyboard Accelerators ..................................................................................................... 531
Chapter 11 -- Dialog Boxes ....................................................................................................... 548
Modal Dialog Boxes ......................................................................................................... 549
Modeless Dialog Boxes .................................................................................................... 590
The Common Dialog Boxes .............................................................................................. 610
Chapter 12 -- The Clipboard..................................................................................................... 642
Simple Use of the Clipboard ............................................................................................ 642
Beyond Simple Clipboard Use .......................................................................................... 657
Becoming a Clipboard Viewer .......................................................................................... 663
Section II: More Graphics ................................................................................................................ 672
Chapter 13-- Using the Printer ................................................................................................. 672
Printing Fundamentals ..................................................................................................... 673
Printing Graphics and Text ............................................................................................... 696
Chapter 14 -- Bitmaps and Bitblts ............................................................................................ 721
Bitmap Basics ................................................................................................................... 721
Bitmap Dimensions .......................................................................................................... 723
The Bit-Block Transfer ...................................................................................................... 729
The GDI Bitmap Object .................................................................................................... 745
Chapter 15 -- The Device-Independent Bitmap ....................................................................... 816
The DIB File Format ......................................................................................................... 816
Displaying and Printing .................................................................................................... 852
The Union of DIBs and DDBs ............................................................................................ 902
Chapter 16 -- The Palette Manager ......................................................................................... 927
Using Palettes .................................................................................................................. 927
Palette Animation ............................................................................................................ 960
Palettes and Real-World Images ...................................................................................... 983
A Library for DIBs ........................................................................................................... 1032
Chapter 17 -- Text and Fonts .................................................................................................. 1124
Simple Text Output ........................................................................................................ 1124
Background on Fonts ..................................................................................................... 1131
The Logical Font ............................................................................................................. 1136
