Introduction
WTL is relatively unknown library for most of C++ developers. Even in its current state (with no official Microsoft support as far as I know) it could compete with MFC as tool for development GUI applications a especially small standalone applications. It is template library and if you design your application right, then it would depend on minimal or none other dll.
So I decided to write WTL application just for sake of experience to see how hard to do it. It turns out to easy enough for a programmer with experience in MFC and WinAPI. Most of the classes match names of MFC classes serving the same purpose. And I did not have to wonder if I got right version of MFC dlls on any other machine where I copied my application. I wanted to do something which would not be too boring, so it was a logical choice to write something funny and useless: a game. WTLSeaBattle is simple version of widely known game �Sea Battle�, it sole purpose is to give an example of dialog based WTL application.
Building Environment
This application was developed using VC++ 6.0 SP6 and WTL70, and tested under Windows XP.
Application Description
WTLSeaBattle is dialog-based application written using WTL. Its main class is
CMainDlg (files maindlg.*) which deals with managing controls in dialog, �battle field� classes and communications between objects inside application. Classes
CMyShips (MyShips.cpp) and CEnemyShips (EnemyShips.cpp) implement player�s and computer�s game fields respectively.
CMyShips and CEnemyShips derived from common base class
CDisplayAreaWnd which contains common functionality. CMyShips allows user to place ships,
CEnemyShips places computer�s ships and handles calculation of next �shot� during game.
