Attila GDI sample
(Jim Murphy likes Attila and GDI a little too much...)
Attila stands for "ATL for Applications." Attila is a set of extensions built on top of ATL to provide application-level services in the same flavor as MFC. Towards that end, Attila uses a lot of the same notions as ATL, e.g. heavy use of templates, static binding and reliance on the compiler and the linker doing their job. Also, in the flavor of ATL, Attila is under-documented and requires a lot of user investment to make use of it. However, once you do, we think you'll find the flexibility and efficiency worth it. If you don't, you haven't lost much, 'cuz Attila is free. Enjoy.
Attila isn't a class library. Some of the headers depend on some of the others. Some are stand-alone. You are free to pull in the pieces of Attila that you need and leave the rest alone. Most of the headers were built by different folks and while every effort was made to keep things consistent by choosing ATL design techniques, everyone does things there own way.
This work is the work of the individuals involved and does not represent any contribution of their respective employers. You are under no obligation to use any of Attila at any time, but if you do, please abide by the License.
Attila is copyright (c) 1999-2000 by its contributors.
All rights reserved.
No warrantees extended.
Use at your own risk.
You may use Attila in your product in compiled form without royalty.
You may not distribute Attila in source code form without the express written
consent of the contributors.
The official home of Attila is http://www.sellsbrothers.com/attila.
The current Attila bits are located at http://www.sellsbrothers.com/attila/attila.zip. Download and unzip them into the folder of your choice (making sure to preserve path names). Make sure to add the Attila include directory to your compilers include path. For example, if you unzipped Attila into the c:\attila directory, add c:\attila\include to your compiler's include path. You can check to make sure you did this right by building any of the samples in the samples folder.
Please do not send Chris Sells or any of the other contributors personal email complaining about Attila. Also please do not post Attila bug reports to any other mailing list, e.g. DCOM or ATL. If you like, you can submit bugs to the Attila Hit Squad mailing list (but only if you're a member). Nobody there is under any responsibility to fix anything in Attila, but you might shame someone into it. A much better way to contribute to the life of Attila is to submit the fix along with the bug report. Or even better, join the Attila Hit Squad mailing list and fix bugs submitted by others.
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Justin Rudd has been working on a wonderful comparison between Attila and Microsoft's Windows Template Library (WTL). Read all about it. When this document is complete enough and WTL is generally available, Attila will be ported to live on top of WTL instead of on top of ATL, eliminating the overlap between the two "competing" libraries. At that point, Attila is likely to evolve into a set of useful ATL classes that are maintained and shipped together, morphing the meaning of the last A from Application to Advancements (not that anyone really cares what the A stands for... : ).
Check the samples.htm file in the samples folder of the Attila distribution. You can build all of the samples from the command line using the buildall.cmd batch file in the samples folder.
You might find some implementation notes for Attila in the docs folder, but you probably won't. If you have any documentation you'd like to submit, we'd love to have it.
These are the things we know are wrong. Feel free to submit fixes or your own issues to AttilaHitSquad@listbox.com.
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