Programming MFC with C++ Part II

This course finishes up the basics of GUI programming with MFC. In addition we cover DLLs and a very brief introduction to ActiveX controls.

Students will learn the Document/View architecture; Microsoft's version of the famous Model/View/Controller pattern. This will allow students to create applications that display the same data many ways. For example, the same data can be displayed as a pie chart, bar graph, or table of numbers, or even a data entry form.

Accepting keyboard and mouse input is also covered with details on character code translations, coordinate system translations, and famous techniques like rubber banding for drawing applications.

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites

Students are assumed to have taken MFC/GUI Programming Part I.

Topics

The Document View Architecture

	MDI v. SDI
	Classes CDocument, CView, CMainFrame, CWinApp
	Decoupling views from documents
	Multiple view objects v. multiple view classes
	Adding another view class

Splitter windows

	Static v. dynamic
	Adding dynamic splitters

Form views

	Form views v. modeless dialogs
	Implementing form views

Implementing panning with scroll bars

The problem

Left handed coordinate systems

	Device v logical
	Translating between coordinate systems

Rubber banding

	The XOR operation
	The redraw operation

Accepting keyboard input

Keyboard messages

Translating WM_KEYDOWN to WM_CHAR

Implementing insertion points

	Creation, destruction
	Gaining/Loosing focus

Dynamic Link Libraries

DLLs v. LIBs

Special considerations

	C++
	MFC

Kinds of DLLs

Creating DLLs

Debugging

Versioning problems

ActiveX, COM & OLE

	Solving the versioning problem
	Creating ActiveX Controls
	Using ActiveX controls

Programming MFC with C++ Part II

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites

Topics

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