fatcodeguy
Programmer
Hi! I hear about wrapper classes for APIs. I was wondering what that meant... Thanks
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Wrapper classes
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Study some MFC - it effectively is a lib of wrapper classes for the win32api.
wrapper classes help you program using the OO paradigm, and not the procedural programing that win32api is based on.
example:
if you want to work with strings you would define myStr char[100] and perform operations on it like: strlen(myStr) etc.
while if you use CString class wrapper for strings you will have you char[] wrapped in the class and perform actions on it using class conventions: CString myStr; myStr.Empty()
wrapper classes help you program using the OO paradigm, and not the procedural programing that win32api is based on.
example:
if you want to work with strings you would define myStr char[100] and perform operations on it like: strlen(myStr) etc.
while if you use CString class wrapper for strings you will have you char[] wrapped in the class and perform actions on it using class conventions: CString myStr; myStr.Empty()
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