Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Multitool Approach to Windows Development
[author : Al Stevens]
No single Windows development tool can meet all of your needs. Al describes a multitool approach to Windows development.
Memory-mapped File I/O
[author : Doug Huffman]
Memory-mapped file I/O (MMFIO) lets you map a file into a linear address space with a call to the operating system. Eric Bergman-Terrell uses NT's MMFIO for sorting.
Multitasking Fortran and Windows NT
[author : Shankar Vaidyanathan]
Here are interface statements and coding guidelines that let you write Fortran programs that call the Win32 C-type API directly.
VWINL, a Virtual Window Library
[author : Al Williams]
Al's VWinL library provides automatic window management for Windows 3.1, NT, and Win32s.
Faking DDE with Private Servers
[author : Joseph M. Newcomer]
When Joe needed a client/server architecture within the application itself, this was his solution.
Horizontally Scrollable Listboxes
[author : Ted Faison]
Here's a C++ listbox class which manages all of the details for scrolling horizontally within a listbox.
Writing Portable Windows Applications
[author : David Van Camp]
Moving from Windows 3 to Windows NT needn't be a headache if you follow David's simple guidelines.
Getting to Know TrueType
[author : Steven Reichenthal]
The Windows API GetGlyphOutline() function is at the heart of this font-viewing program.
Writing Windows Custom Controls
[author : Dan Brindle]
Dan modifies the standard Windows radio button to create a custom VCR-style button.
A Generic SQL Class Library
[author : Ken North]
Ken presents a C++ SQL class library for multi-DBMS programming.
Threads for Windows 3
[author : David Lee]
Unlike NT, Windows 3 doesn't provide direct support for threads. With the techniques David illustrates here, you can implement non-preemptive threads in Windows 3.