| About This Electronic Book |
| Author's Note
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| About the Author
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| Cover
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| Chapter 1 | Getting Started |
| The Windows Environment |
| Windows Programming Options |
| Your First Windows Program |
| Chapter 2 | An Introduction to Unicode |
| A Brief History of Character Sets |
| Wide Characters and C |
| Wide Characters and Windows |
| Chapter 3 | Windows and Messages |
| A Window of One's Own |
| The Windows Programming Hurdles |
| Chapter 4 | An Exercise in Text Output |
| Painting and Repainting |
| An Introduction to GDI |
| Scroll Bars |
| Building a Better Scroll |
| Chapter 5 | Basic Drawing |
| The Structure of GDI |
| The Device Context |
| Drawing Dots and Lines |
| Drawing Filled Areas |
| The GDI Mapping Mode |
| Rectangles, Regions, and Clipping |
| MM_ANISOTROPIC: Stretching the Image to Fit |
| Rectangles, Regions, and Clipping |
| Chapter 6 | The Keyboard |
| Keyboard Basics |
| Keystroke Messages |
| Character Messages |
| Keyboard Messages and Character Sets |
| The Caret (Not the Cursor) |
| Chapter 7 | The Mouse |
| Mouse Basics |
| Client-Area Mouse Messages |
| Nonclient-Area Mouse Messages |
| Hit-Testing in Your Programs |
| Capturing the Mouse |
| The Mouse Wheel |
| Still to Come |
| Chapter 8 | The Timer |
| Timer Basics |
| Using the Timer: Three Methods |
| Using the Timer for a Clock |
| Using the Timer for a Status Report |
| Chapter 9 | Child Window Controls |
| The Button Class |
| Controls and Colors |
| The Static Class |
| The Scroll Bar Class |
| The Edit Class |
| The Listbox Class |
| Chapter 10 | Menus and Other Resources |
| Icons, Cursors, Strings, and Custom Resources |
| Menus |
| Keyboard Accelerators |
| Chapter 11 | Dialog Boxes |
| Chapter 11 | Dialog Boxes |
| Modeless Dialog Boxes |
| The Common Dialog Boxes |
| Chapter 12 | The Clipboard |
| Simple Use of the Clipboard |
| Beyond Simple Clipboard Use |
| Becoming a Clipboard Viewer |
| Chapter 13 | Using the Printer |
| Printing Fundamentals |
| Printing Graphics and Text |
| Chapter 14 | Bitmaps and Bitblts |
| Bitmap Basics |
| Bitmap Dimensions |
| The Bit-Block Transfer |
| The GDI Bitmap Object |
| Chapter 15 | The Device-Independent Bitmap |
| The DIB File Format |
| Displaying and Printing |
| The Union of DIBs and DDBs |
| Chapter 16 | The Palette Manager |
| Using Palettes |
| Palette Animation |
| Palettes and Real-World Images |
| A Library for DIBs |
| Chapter 17 | Text and Fonts |
| Simple Text Output |
| Background on Fonts |
| The Logical Font |
| Font Enumeration |
| Paragraph Formatting |
| The Fun and Fancy Stuff |
| Chapter 18 | Metafiles |
| The Old Metafile Format |
| Enhanced Metafiles |
| Chapter 19 | The Multiple-Document Interface |
| MDI Concepts |
| A Sample MDI Implementation |
| Chapter 20 | Multitasking and Multithreading |
| Modes of Multitasking |
| Windows Multithreading |
| Thread Synchronization |
| Event Signaling |
| Thread Local Storage |
| Chapter 21 | Dynamic-Link Libraries |
| Library Basics |
| Miscellaneous DLL Topics |
| Chapter 22 | Sound and Music |
| Windows and Multimedia |
| Waveform Audio |
| MIDI and Music |
| Chapter 23 | A Taste of the Internet |
| Windows Sockets |
| WinInet and FTP |
| About Microsoft Press |
