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Expert C++

You're reading from   Expert C++ Become a proficient programmer by learning coding best practices with C++17 and C++20's latest features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838552657
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vardan Grigoryan Vardan Grigoryan
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Shunguang Wu Shunguang Wu
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Under the Hood of C++ Programming
2. Introduction to Building C++ Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Low-Level Programming with C++ 4. Details of Object-Oriented Programming 5. Understanding and Designing Templates 6. Memory Management and Smart Pointers 7. Section 2: Designing Robust and Efficient Applications
8. Digging into Data Structures and Algorithms in STL 9. Functional Programming 10. Concurrency and Multithreading 11. Designing Concurrent Data Structures 12. Designing World-Ready Applications 13. Designing a Strategy Game Using Design Patterns 14. Networking and Security 15. Debugging and Testing 16. Graphical User Interface with Qt 17. Section 3: C++ in the AI World
18. Using C++ in Machine Learning Tasks 19. Implementing a Dialog-Based Search Engine 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding cross-platform GUI programming

Each OS has its own API. It relates to the GUI in particular. When companies plan to design, implement, and ship desktop applications, they should decide what platform to focus on. A team of developers working on one platform will spend almost the same amount of time writing the same application for the other platform. The biggest reason for this is the different approaches and APIs provided by OS. The complexity of the API may also play a big role in implementing applications on time. For example, the following snippet from the official documentation shows how to create a button in Windows using C++:

HWND hwndButton = CreateWindow(
L"BUTTON", // Predefined class; Unicode assumed
L"OK", // Button text
WS_TABSTOP | WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD | BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON,
// Styles
10, // x position
10...
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