To generate a new idea one has to see a lot of good ideas. C Pearls consists about 50 of them. Learning features of C in isolated forms is one thing, putting all these features together to come out with something worthwhile is a totally different cup of tea. In this book you would find a lot of solid workable code which would help you appreciate why C enjoys its place in the sun. Here you would find code which would help you implement ideas like. Freehand Drawing with Mouse. Data Compression. Formatting a Disk. Using Expanded Memory. Loading Installable Fonts. Function Documentor. Setjmp and Longjmp. Touch, rm and getopts. Generic Search Routines. Bresenham's Algorithms. Inexact String Comparisons. Background Music. Common Pointer Errors. EXE2BIN Utility. Testing Programs. Redirecting Standard Errors. and many more... If you can siphon some of the pearls from this treasure chest into yours programs the purpose of writing this book would be served.
Table Of Contents
Interaction with Mouse
Drawing with Mouse
Building Mouse Courses
More Mouse Courses
Freehand Drawing with Mouse
Menu Using Mouse
How The Format Command Really Works
Writing Our Own Format Command
Load Installable Fonts
More About Installable Fonts
A Line Inpput Function
Setjmp and Longjmp
Advanced Command Line Processing
Debugging Using Command Line Switch
Allocating Multiple Char Arrays
The Touch Utility
A Generic Search Routine
rm Unix Style
Bresenham's Line Drawing Algorithm
Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
The Fractal Magic
Fractle Trees
Inexact String Comparisons
Redirecting Standard Errors
Changing Border Colours
Modifyinng Search Path
Building Arrays in Expanded Memory
Floating Point Formats Not Linked
Pointer Errors
Getting Input in Graphics Mode
Using Floats in ISR's
Playing Music
Music in Background
Printing Graphics
Trapping Disk Errors
Implementing Complex Number
EXE2BIN Utility
Variably Dimensioned Arrays
Calculating Wasted Bytes on Disk
Function Documentor
Dynamic Memory Allocation
Testing Programs
The Duff's Device
Stripping Comments
Building Libraries
A Simple Program
A Data Entry Function
Data Compression
A Simple Optimization Tip
Another Optimization Tip
Nested for Statements
