Windows Graphics Programming [With *]

by Julio Sanchez

Windows? Graphics Programming Whether you're involved in business, engineering, design, art, or games, this book delivers the design and programming know-how you need to develop top-of-the-line... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764532510
• ISBN13: 9780764532511
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Length: 739 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good background material

This book is a good introduction to graphics programming in Windows.

Great examples

This book is well written with many good examples. The included CD-Rom is a tremendous advantage!

Solid API programming & what you need to know about graphics

Ensures that you have a fundamental understanding of the language of graphics and then leads you through increasingly more complex graphics application. If you want to learn API programming, I can't think of a better book to get you started.

Excellent

I was really interested in game programming and this book really helped me a lot. I would recommend this to anyone interested.

Decent Book on Windows, Great Book on Graphics

I picked up this and several other Windows programming book a few weeks ago. This is one of my favorites. While the first part of the book (on getting started with Windows API programming) is pretty decent, it isn't as good as Windows Programming from the Ground Up or Petzold's Programming Windows. However, the latter parts of the book, (on graphics), is the best that I've run across. The main problem a new person might run into is that several of the programs won't initially compile in Visual C++ 6.0. The solution is to typecast the offending lines. I.e for the Hello Windows program on pages 112-114, the line wndclass.hicon = LoadImage(...); should be wndclass.hicon = (HICON) LoadImage(...);Other than that, all programs seem to work fine, which is more than you can say for most books.Two final things: This book is totally API programming, not MFC. This is a _very_ good thing as, IMHO, MFC is useless. But if you do like MFC, this isn't the book for you.The second thing is that I may be biased as I've had the author as a professor in several classes, and am very used to his style. Still, I feel that anyone who knows any C programming could jump into windows with this book.