C++ Windows Programming

Chapter 2. Hello, Small World!

This chapter introduces Small Windows by presenting the following two small applications:

• The first application writes "Hello, Small Windows!" in a window
• The second application handles circles of different colors in a document window

Hello, Small Windows!

In The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Richie, the hello-world example was introduced. It was a small program that wrote "hello, world" on the screen. In this section, we shall write a similar program for Small Windows.

In regular C++, the execution of the application starts with the main function. In Small Windows, however, main is hidden in the framework and has been replaced by MainWindow, whose task is to define the application name and create ...