Chapter 3. MFC Message Handling Mechanism

by David Bennett and Mickey Williams

In This Chapter

Windows programs are based on an event-driven programming model. This means that most of the things your application will do are done in response to various Windows messages. If you have done any Windows programming, you already know this. This chapter will show you how to work with MFC to handle messages with C++ classes. In this chapter, you will learn about

  • Standard Windows commands handled by the MFC

  • How MFC dispatches messages to your application

  • Using ClassWizard to handle messages

  • Implementing ...

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