November 1996
Vol. 14, No. 11

Windows Programming

Dragto A Windows Programmer's Utility

Carl Zmola
Drag-and-Drop is great, if you have some place suitable to drop. Making such a place need not be expensive.

Encapsulating Windows Controls

Chris Downs
Better to build on what MFC gives you than reinvent a whole new wheel.

C++ Classes for MDI Windows Management

Steve Welstead
The Windows multiple document interface may appear complicated, but it is easily managed by this set of C++ classes.

FEATURES

CGI Programming in C

Harry H. Cheng
CGI is the key to making a web page into an active agent, and C is a good language for implementing a CGI program.

3-D Lookup Table Color Matching

Leonardo Zayas Vila
If you have to map many pixels to a relatively small palette, building a translation table wisely may prove to be the best approach.

Nested for Statements Revisited

Robin J. Leatherbarrow
Sometimes the best way to capture looping logic is not in the program control structures but in an object that lets you decide at run time how many loops to iterate over.

A Class for Representing Large Integers

Anthony Breitzman
When you need big numbers, you need big numbers. In that case, even the simplest class for representing large integers can make all the difference.

High-Speed Transfers on a PC Parallel Port

Kyle A. York
The simplest way to control a device with a PC is often through the parallel port, if you know how.

BOOK REVIEW

Hooked on Java

Douglas A. Nickerson

COLUMNS

Standard C/C++: Last of the Algorithms

P. J. Plauger
Rounding out STL's collection of algorithms are a handful of operations that may be classified as miscellaneous. They merit study no less than their easily classified brethren.

C++ Theory and Practice: const as a Promise

Dan Saks
A surprising number of C++ programmers still don't understand or properly use const. If you are one of them, let Dan gently guide you to const correctness.

Questions & Answers: Traits to the Rescue

Pete Becker
How can a program know the range of a type without knowing the type in advance? Pete shows a method based on the magic of traits.

C/C++ Sources: In Search of C++ Libraries

Victor R. Volkman
Victor tries to convince the popular search engines that C and C++ exist. In the process, he turns up some interesting web sites.

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