Venturing beyond C++ programming, this text shows how to engineer software products using object-oriented principles. It covers gathering requirements, specifying objects, object verification, defining relations between objects, translating object design into code, object testing, and software maintenance.

Object-Oriented Software Engineering/Examples in C++

Computers & Technology

Steve Halladay

Programming

CMP Books

Shows how to make powerful and useable custom controls for Windows. This text aims to show how use a modular technique to bring structure and re-usability to Windows application designs. The custom controls range from enhancing existing static controls, to designing dynamic icons.

Windows Custom Controls

William Smith

Operating Systems

This text explains the Prographx Toolbox, a successful software product widely used in video game development. The Toolbox provides graphics animation by using icons with high speed pixel panning. The icon editor provides image manipulation; animation, image flipping and shifting, color replacement, and dithering. Icons alone do not provide a complete graphics development environment, so the Toolbox includes core graphics routines such as lines, boxes, and circles and uses the ROM fonts available in the EGA/VGA adapter ROM BIOS. The text explains how to program an EGA/VGA adapter using assembly language methods, allowing the Toolbox to work with two programming languages -- C and Pascal. Video modes and basic graphics routines are detailed with examples of core functions from the Toolbox. Jungck explains how to manipulate the hardware directly and match algorithms to hardware processes, using the most efficient computation techniques, as well as how you can use modular design and put display control information in data structures for easy changes and expansions. Using the techniques of Jungck's ProGraphx Toolbox, you can manage screen controls with matrices, linked lists, and tables rather than needing specifically coded functions. The coding of the icon editor is explained, including sophisticated methods such as capturing screen images and converting them into icon formats. Basic routines for displaying PCX files, (the common graphics file format), provide another means for grabbing images to convert to icons, and easy methods for managing background graphics and title page displays. Mouse controls and file management routines provide user interface and real world interaction for programs contructed using the Toolbox. The author also shows how to structure code to make it flexible and reusable with examples from event driven game designs.   Audience : For graphics programmers familiar with either the C or Pascal language, this book provides ready to use tools and shows how to customize the tools. Examples are given from video game design, and the principles can be used for any graphic development requiring high speed animation without demanding large hardware platforms.   Disk Contents: The companion disk contains over 170 program files from the book, including the complete ProGraphx Toolbox and a copy of Secret Agent.   System Requirements: Any PC with a hard drive and EGA or VGA display.

Graphics Programming and Animation

Jungck, Peder

Windows NT allows any machine on a network to call remote procedures. This volume explores RPC in detail. It considers distributed applications, interface development language (IDL), binding and handles, RPC from DOS and DOS/Windows, advanced uses of RPC (with examples), memory management for distributed applications, debugging distributed applications, and more.

Rpc for Nt/Building Remote Procedure Calls for Windows Nt Networks/Book and Disk

Guy Eddon

Certification

( Learn how to squeeze faster performance from existing programs. (  The diskette included with the book has replacements for common functions in the standard C library. Using this code, instead of the library that comes with commercial compilers, will make programs run faster.  ( The diskette also provides a utility, TACHO.EXE, a "tachometer" that assesses the cycle times of executable program files. Optimizing C with Assembly Code shows how to make C programs run faster by strategically inserting brief inline assembly code. Many of the explanations about cycle times and pipeline stalls have never been published anywhere; not even by Intel.  Although the book targets MS-DOS and Windows 3.x running on 486s, many of the improvements are also relevant for OS/2 or other 32-bit systems. Most of these optimizations are useful for 386s. The authors warn the reader if they are not useful for 386s.  Additionally, the authors evaluate the optimizers of the three most popular C compilers. Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, & Symantec C++ are critically compared. These compilers are used as test compilers throughout the book, but the processing rules focus on methods common to all C compilers. The assembly routines in this book can improve processing by 15% to 50% over the commercial compiler libraries.    Programmers who know how to profile their programs and provide efficient processing, and are looking for the last iota of speed in execution. No assembler experience is necessary, but the authors assume that the reader has a reference text for looking up instruction definitions, register names, etc. (One of the Appendices provides 80486 assembler instruction mnemonics and cycle times).

Optimizing C With Assembly Code

Science & Math

Peter Gulutzan

Mathematics

Uc/OS the Real-Time Kernel

Jean J. Labrosse

Roger Stevens provides examples of nearly every technique for creating and viewing PCX graphics files and explains how to create custom tailor programs to work with specific systems. Thorough explanations are given, from the basics of PCX file structures to converting BMP, RLE, GIF and TGA files to PCX formats and customizing display and color resolution.

Using Pcx Graphics Files

Roger Stevens

Because the Microsoft documentation on Help is notoriously weak, Windows programmers will need this book which explains how to develop Microsoft Windows Help Applications, how to build the necessary files and how they work together.

Building Windows Help Files

Keith E. Bugg

Master operation system development. FreeDOS Kernel explains the construction and operation of Pat Villani's DOS-C - a highly portable, single threaded operating system. Written in C and with system calls similar to MS-DOS, the FreeDOS kernel provides an

FreeDOS Kernel; An MS-DOS Emulator for Platform Independence and Embedded Systems Development

Villani, Pat

Computer Science

Bugg, Keith E.

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Object-Oriented Software Engineering/Examples in C++

Windows Custom Controls

Graphics Programming and Animation

Rpc for Nt/Building Remote Procedure Calls for Windows Nt Networks/Book and Disk

Optimizing C With Assembly Code

Uc/OS the Real-Time Kernel

Using Pcx Graphics Files

Building Windows Help Files

FreeDOS Kernel; An MS-DOS Emulator for Platform Independence and Embedded Systems Development

Building Windows Help Files