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Lesson 1 -Building Your First Windows Application

1.1 : Creating a Windows Application

1.2 : Creating a Dialog-Based Application

1.3 : Creating DLLs, Console Applications, and More
1.4 : Changing Your AppWizard Decisions
 1.5 : Understanding AppWizard’s Code
 1.6 : Understanding a MDI Application
 1.7 : Understanding the Components of a Dialog-Based Application

Lesson 2 - Dialogs and Controls

2.1 : Understanding Dialog Boxes

2.2 : Creating a Dialog Box Resource
 2.3 : Writing a Dialog Box Class
 2.4 : Using the Dialog Box Class
Lesson 3 - Messages and Commands

3.1 : Understanding Message Routing

3.2 : Understanding Message Loops
 3.3 : Reading Message Maps
 3.4 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Messages
 3.5 : Recognizing Messages
 3.6 : Understanding Commands
 3.7 : Understanding Command Updates
 3.8 : Learning How ClassWizard Helps You Catch Commands and Command Updates

Lesson 4 - Documents and Views

4.1 : Understanding the Document Class

4.2 : Understanding the View Class

4.3 : Creating the Rectangles Application
 4.4 : Other View Classes

4.5 : Document Templates, Views, and Frame Windows

Lesson 5 - Drawing on the Screen

5.1 :Understanding Device Contexts
 5.2 : Introducing the Paint1 Application
 5.3 : Building the Paint1 Application
 5.4 : Scrolling Windows
 5.5 : Building the Scroll Application
Lesson 6 - Building a Complete Application: ShowString

6.1 : Building an Application That Displays a String
 6.2 : Building the ShowString Menus
 6.3 : Building the ShowString Dialog Boxes
 6.4 : Making the Menu Work
 6.5 : Making the Dialog Box Work
 6.6 : Adding Appearance Options to the Options Dialog Box
Lesson 7 -  Status Bars and Toolbars

7.1 : Working with Toolbars
 7.2 : Working with Status Bars
Lesson 8 - Common Controls

8.1 : The Progress Bar Control
 8.2 : The Up-Down Control
 8.3 : The Image List Control
 8.4 : The List View Control
 8.5 : The Tree View Control
 8.6 : The Rich Edit Control
 8.7 : The Date Picker Control
 8.8 : Month Calendar Control
 8.9 : Scrolling the View
Lesson 9 - Property Pages and Sheets

9.1 : Introducing Property Sheets
 9.2 : Creating the Property Sheet Demo Application
 9.3 : Running the Property Sheet Demo Application
Lesson 10 - ActiveX Concepts

10.1 : The Purpose of ActiveX

10.2 : Object Linking

10.3 : Object Embedding
 10.4 : Containers and Servers
 10.5 : Toward a More Intuitive User Interface
 10.6 : The Component Object Model  

10.7 : Automation
 10.8 : ActiveX Controls

Lesson 11 -  Building an ActiveX Control

11.1 : Creating a Rolling-Die Control

11.2 : Displaying the Current Value

11.3 : Reacting to a Mouse Click and Rolling the Die 

 11.4 : Creating a Better User Interface
 11.5 : Generating Property Sheets
Lesson 12 - Database Access

12.1 : Understanding Database Concepts

12.2 : Creating an ODBC Database Program
 12.3 : Choosing Between ODBC and DAO
 12.4 : OLE DB

Lesson - 5 :Drawing on the Screen
5.2- Introducing the Paint1 Application

In this lesson, you will build the Paint1 application, which demonstrates fonts, pens, and brushes. Paint1 will use the document/view paradigm discussed in Previous, "Documents and Views," and the view will handle displaying the data. When run, the application will display text in several different fonts. When users click the application, it displays lines drawn with several different pens. After another click, it displays boxes filled with a variety of brushes.

The first step in creating Paint1 is to build an empty shell with AppWizard, as first discussed in Unit1, "Building Your First Windows Application." Choose File, New, and select the Projects tab. As shown in Figure 5.1, fill in the project name as Paint1 and fill in an appropriate directory for the project files. Make sure that MFC AppWizard (exe) is selected. Click OK.


FIG. 5.1 Start an AppWizard project workspace called Paint1.

Move through the AppWizard dialog boxes, change the settings to match those in the list that follows, and then click Next to move to the next step.

Step 1: Select Single Document.

Step 2: Use default settings.

Step 3: Use default settings.

Step 4: Deselect all check boxes.

Step 5: Use default settings.

Step 6: Use default settings.

After you click Finish on the last step, the New Project Information box should resemble Figure 5.2. Click OK to create the project.

FIG. 5.2 The starter application for Paint1 is very simple.

Now that you have a starter application, it’s time to add code to make it demonstrate some ways an MFC program can display data onscreen. By the time you get to the end of this Unit, the words display context won’t make you scratch your head in perplexity.

NOTE: Your starter application has menus, but you will ignore them completely. It would be quite a bit of work to remove them; just pretend they aren’t there.
 
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