Chapter 1. Introduction
The purpose of this book is to learn how to develop applications in Windows. In order to do so, I have developed Small Windows, which is a C++ object-oriented class library for graphical applications in Windows.
The idea is to guide you into Windows programming by introducing increasingly more advanced applications written in C++ with Small Windows, thereby hiding the technical details of the Windows 32-bit Applications Programming Interface (Win32 API), which is the underlying library for Windows development. With this approach, we can focus on the business logic without struggling with the underlying technical details. If you are interested in knowing how the Win32 API works, the second part of this book gives a detailed ...
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