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C++ Windows Programming

You're reading from   C++ Windows Programming Develop real-world applications in Windows.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464224
Length 588 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Hello, Small World! 3. Building a Tetris Application 4. Working with Shapes and Figures 5. The Figure Hierarchy 6. Building a Word Processor 7. Keyboard Input and Character Calculation 8. Building a Spreadsheet Application 9. Formula Interpretation 10. The Framework 11. The Document 12. The Auxiliary Classes 13. The Registry, Clipboard, Standard Dialogs, and Print Preview 14. Dialogs, Controls, and Page Setup A. Rational and Complex Numbers

The Cursor class


There is a set of cursors available in the Win32 API, all with names starting with IDC_. In Small Windows, they have been given other names, which are hopefully easier to understand. Unlike other cases, we cannot use an enumeration for the cursors, since they are actually zero-terminated C++ strings (character pointers). Instead, every cursor is a pointer to a zero-terminated string. LPCTSTR stands for Long Pointer to Constant TChar String.

The reason the cursor has its own class, while the caret has a method in the Document class is that the caret does need a window handle to be set, while the cursor does not.

Cursor.h

namespace SmallWindows { 
  typedef LPCTSTR CursorType; 
 
  class Cursor { 
    public: 
      static const CursorType Normal; 
      static const CursorType Arrow; 
      static const CursorType ArrowHourGlass; 
      static const CursorType Crosshair; 
      static const CursorType Hand; 
      static const...
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