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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

5.4 -Scrolling Windows

Those famous screen rectangles known as windows enable you to partition screen space between various applications and documents. Also, if a document is too large to completely fit within a window, you can view portions of it and scroll through it a bit at a time. The Windows operating system and MFC pretty much take care of the partitioning of screen space. However, if you want to enable users to view portions of a large document, you must create scrolling windows.

Adding scrollbars to an application from scratch is a complicated task. Luckily for Visual C++ programmers, MFC handles many of the details involved in scrolling windows over documents. If you use the document/view architecture and derive your view window from MFC’s CScrollView class, you have scrolling capabilities almost for free.You still must handle a few details, which you learn about in the following sections.

NOTE: If you create your application with AppWizard, you can specify that you want to use CScrollView as the base class for your view class. To do this, in the Step 6 of 6 dialog box displayed by AppWizard, select your view window in the class list and then select CScrollView in the Base Class dialog box, as shown in Figure 5.6.


FIG. 5.6 You can create a scrolling window from within AppWizard.

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