Yet another Conway's game of Life






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Consider this program as a demo for GDI+
Introduction
Here is another Conway's game of life.
Points of Interest
Please, consider this project as a sample for GDI+. This project also provides the following techniques:
- Shows a possible MFC way to use a thread to draw the content of the
board. See
DrawThread
method in theCLifeWnd
class. - A convenient random class. See
CRandom
class. - A convenient
NONCLIENTMETRICS
class wrapper. SeeCNonClientMetrics
class. - A GDI+ version of
Draw3dRect
and some variants - Dialog box(es)' size is recalculated according to the font defined in the
control panel (
DoModal
is overloaded in the base classes). SeeCBaseDialog
andCResizableBaseDialog
classes. ResizableLib
from Paolo Messina has been used to manage the resizing of dialogs on the fly. Thanks to him for his useful set of classes.
Conclusion
There are maybe bugs around. Just signal them to me. I'll try to handle them.