Overview In this chapter I introduce Borland C++Builder (BCB) and explain what it is about. I also devote considerable time to explaining the purpose of this book and the philosophy behind my approach to technical writing. Technical subjects covered in this chapter include Creating a simple Multimedia RAD program that plays movies, WAV files, and MIDI files. Shutting down the BCB RAD programming tools and writing raw Windows API code instead. Creating components dynamically on the heap at runtime. Setting up event handlers (closures) dynamically at runtime. A brief introduction to using exceptions. This topic is covered in more depth in Chapter 5, "Exceptions." A brief introduction to ANSI strings. This subject is covered in more depth in Chapter 3, "C++Builder and the VCL." Using the online help. Greping through the include and source files that come with the product and with this book.
This program will ask how many numbers you want to find the average of, then it will allow you to enter your numbers(yes they can even be decimals) then it will calculate the mean, median, mode and range of what you enter.
UnZip is a small zipfile extract utility. It is written to be assmall portable as possible and is intended to be starting point for im-plementation of .ZIP files in non-IBM environments.Source code is provided in C and Turbo Pascal. If you port this programto a non-IBM system, I would appreciate a copy of the ported source andexe files.
Stantor is a Domotic project. It is a SCADA for the computer interface board K8055 (USB bus), K8000 (I2C bus) , X10 modules and also Webcam. It uses Browser WEB, I-mode and Wap2/Wap1, Apache,mySQL, PHP, javascript. It run with Linux 2.4 or 2.6 and XP
From your fax application view point it s a fax modem pool. From IP network view point it s a H.323 endpoint with T.38 fax support. From your view point it s a gateway between a fax application and IP network.
The flpydisk sample is a floppy driver that resides in the directory \\Ntddk\Src\Storage\Fdc\Flpydsk. It is similar to a class driver in that it sits a level above the floppy disk controller in the driver stack, and brokers communication between the application level and the low-level driver. The floppy driver takes commands from the application and then calls routines in the controller which will in turn perform the actual interaction with the device. The sample compiles in 64-bit, but has not been tested in this environment. It is compatible with x86 and Alpha platforms.
