ChiLib: Documentation

The ChiLib C++ library supports Cay Horstmann's book "Mastering Object-Oriented Design in C++". It offers a number of useful features including strings (as real objects), "smart" arrays, graphics classes, linkedlists and other container classes, as well as some utilities including a calender date class.

The documentation here has been derived from the ChiLib.txt file that is part of the released code that accompanies the book. As such it is

and is used with the permission of the author.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Library contents and limitations
  • 1.2. Name prefixes
  • 1.3. Error handling
  • 1.4. Organization of files
  • 1.5. Building programs
• 2. Arrays
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Construction
  • 2.3. Resizing
  • 2.4. Element access
  • 2.5. Bounds range
  • 2.6. Inserting elements
  • 2.7. Removing elements
  • 2.8. Sorting
  • 2.9. Array parameters
  • 2.10. Reallocation
  • 2.11. Template variants
  • 2.12. Default values
• 3. Strings
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Construction
  • 3.3. Element access
  • 3.4. Length
  • 3.5. Comparison
  • 3.6. Concatenation
  • 3.7. Inserting and removing characters
  • 3.8. Substrings
  • 3.9. Fields
  • 3.10. Input and output
  • 3.11. Finding
  • 3.12. Case conversion
  • 3.13. Numeric conversion
  • 3.14. Conversion to C strings
• 4. Date
  • 4.1. Constructors
  • 4.2. Accessors
  • 4.3. Date arithmetic
  • 4.4. Comparison
• 6. Graphics context
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Constructor
  • 6.3. Shutdown
  • 6.4. Changing the coordinate system
  • 6.5. Drawing
  • 6.6. Text
  • 6.7. Brushes and pens
  • 6.8. Raster operation mode
• 7. Shapes
  • 7.1. Limitations
  • 7.2. Input and output
  • 7.3. Transformations
  • 7.4. Default constructors
  • 7.5. Cloning
  • 7.6. Points
  • 7.7. Segments
  • 7.8. Rectangles
  • 7.9. Filled rectangles
  • 7.10. Ellipses
  • 7.11. Polygons
  • 7.12. Text
  • 7.13. Scalable text
• 8. Command line arguments
  • 8.1. Types of arguments
  • 8.2. Construction
  • 8.3. Parsing
• 9. Lists
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Access to head and tail
  • 9.3. Traversal
  • 9.4. Iteration
• 10. Other containers
  • 10.1. Queues
  • 10.2. Priority queues
  • 10.3. Maps
• 11. Errors and assertions
  • 11.1. Error reporting classes
  • 11.2. Assertions
• 12. Sample code
  • 12.1. Polymorphic shapes
  • 12.2. Streams
  • 12.3. Simulation
  • 12.4. Graph editor framework
• 13. Debugging hints
  • 13.1. Inspecting containers
  • 13.2. Inspecting self
  • 13.3. Trapping errors