Introduction to Windows Programming

This aims to provide simple explanations and instruction at a gradual pace so that it can be used even by beginners. It offers coverage of everything from setting up the development environment through device management, interactive programming, device independent bit-maps, multimedia, memory management and more. Readers learn to draw lines and shapes; create interactive programs; use object linking and embedding (OLE) and dynamic data exchange (DDE) and more. It contains "real world" examples, often accompanied by the necessary code and includes a disk with code from the most popular and complex programmes from the book including Paint, Animator and Multimedia. It covers versions 3.0 and 3.1 with emphasis on the new and more complex features of 3.1.