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Welcome
Overview
Revision History
Contributors
Acknowledments and Copyrights
Welcome
Since version 3.0 of the Windows Template Library was made available, many ATL
developers have embraced it for its ATL GUI extensions and MFC style classes. WTL allows
ATL developers to quickly integrate and/or extend many useful classes.
As of the early part of 2000, developers looking for documentation on the WTL had
somewhat limited resources. There were a few good white papers and transcripts to provide
insight, but as yet no comprehensive class reference.
We'd like to change that.
In June 2000, Ben Burnett posted the beginnings of a compiled HTML document compilation
dealing with the nitty gritty of the classes and methods available in the WTL. This
documentation is the continuance of that initial posting.
We've taken a bit of a different approach this time. Since the WTL is quite an
extensive library, it hardly seems possible for one pair of hands to deal with all the
work that a complete reference would involve. We decided to draw up a framework in HTML
that would allow us to present the classes involved, and then fill in the blanks.
We've changed the format from compiled HTML Help to on-line HTML, at least for now.
When the project approaches completion, we'll make available a compiled HTML Help file for
general consumption. We felt it would be a bit wasteful to continually update a
rather large file while classes remained undocumented.
We'd like to make this a project that we all can contribute to. As you browse through
the class refs you'll see that there is a lot to do. If you've used one of the classes, or
have some experience in deriving your own from an implementation template, and can hold
your breath long enough to edit an HTML based page, we'd like to hear from you!
Whats in it for you? Well, your name in the list of contributors, and maybe
(someday) even a hat or a t-shirt. "I WhiTtLed on the DoCk" or something
catchy like that there. (Ed. note: cut back Tim's coffee rations)
At the outset, our main focus is in filling in the class references. This
shouldn't stop people from sumitting stand alone articles - but for those of you who have
an isolated bit of code that illustrates some functionality but doesn't quite rate an
article with project, here's your chance. There's lots of room for sample code.
Contact us at wtlDocs@CodeProject.com
Overview
The components of the WTL fall into several categories.
Most emphasis has been placed on providing wrappers for the Windows common dialogs and
controls, along with GDI objects and extensive support for device contexts.
The library also contains classes dealing with application support (based on CComModule),
data exchange for controls, printing support, and even a few MFC ports (including good ol'
CString!), and the OpenGL wgl support functions!
All of the classes and stand alone methods are in the WTL namespace unless otherwise
noted.
This documentation is organized with a Class Heirarchy,
and also with links to a File List page that outlines
what classes etc. are defined in the various headers.
Contributors
| Ben Burnett |
Provided the original concept and initial annotations. |
| Tim Deveaux |
Assisted in organizing the on line HTML project. |
Revision history
| June 2000 |
Initial article posted on site by Ben Burnett |
| July 2000 |
Second phase (this collection) begun. Original annotations ported
by Ben Burnett. |
Acknowledgements and Copyrights
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The documentation files were originally generated using doxygen - an open source
source documentation system for C, C++ and IDL, which can also be configured to extract
the code-structure from undocumented source files. It is covered by the GNU Public
licence. |
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