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windows 3 programming 1991

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p.4 WHAT? ME WORRY ABOUT WINDOWS PROGRAMMING?

[author : Michael Floyd] #Edito

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p.7 QUICK APPROXIMATIONS OF POLYGONAL AREAS USING BITBLT

[author : Nancy Nicolaisen]

Use graphics and Boolean raster operations to estimate areas by determining the unit area represented by a single pixel.

p.19 SUBCLASSING APPLICATIONS

[author : Mike Klein]

Subclassing is an important—and misunderstood—method of intercepting and processing messages going to an object in Windows 3.

p.29 WINDOWS MEETS C++

[author : Scott Robert Ladd]

If you've been wondering whether or not the object-oriented power of C++ can be used to simplify Windows programming, Scott's class library gives you an answer—even though Windows isn't necessarily object oriented in the first place.

p.39 PROGRAMMING WINDOWS USING STATE TABLES

[author : Michael A. Bertrand and William R. Welch]

The data structure presented in this article can simplify the structure of interactive graphics programs. Here, a Windows-based program called "Draw" uses stable tables to implement interactive drawing tools in an economical, consistent fashion.

p.47 PROPVIEW: A WINDOWS FAMILY BROWSER

[author : Mike Klein]

PropView, the Windows 3 property and structure viewer presented here, provides information on any window under the mouse, including its handle, caption, class name, class icon, properties, extra data, and style information.