Fernando P. Malard (Brazil, Belo Horizonte) maintains site ObjectARX & Dummies dedicated to C++ programming with ObjectARX. In 2005 he published a beginner course written by the author and including 24 steps with 14 classes and 3 labs: 1. Welcome; 2. Requirements; 3. Class 1 - Overview; 4. Class 2 - AutoCAD's Database; 5. Class 3 - Application Overview; 6. Class 3a - Minimum application; 7. Class 3b - Minimum application using ARXWizard; 8. Class 4 - Object Lifecycle; 9. Class 5 - Object Management; 10. Class 6 - Entities; 11. Class 7 - Containers; 12. Class 8 - Selection sets; 13. Class 9 - Interacting with AutoCAD; 14. Class 10 - Using MFC; 15. Class 11 - Custom ObjectARX Class; 16. Class 12 - Deriving from AcDbObject; 17. Class 13 - Deriving from AcDbEntity; 18. Class 14 - Creating a Custom Entity (step by step); 19. Lab1 - Creating and Editing Entities; 20. Lab1 - Solved; 21. Lab2 - Using a MFC Dialog; 22. Lab2 - Solved; 23. Creating a custom object; 24. Appendix A - Debug versus Release. |
At the mentioned site there was placed an English version of a section from the chapter 5 of my book "AutoCAD: Application Development, Tuning and Customization". The section title is Transparent Splash Screen As a Modeless Dialog. From Download page you can get files for Book16 projects of English and Russian versions for VS 2002 and VS 2005.
Here is a beginning of the published section in English. Russian text is here.