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MRI’s C++ Framework Library Programmer’s Guide Mark Resources, Inc D. L. Brandon October 8, 2004 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Design Goals and Library Features 4 Terminology 6 Object 8 Type 8 Class 8 Structure 8 Instantiation 9 Member 9 Method 9 Enumeration 9 Inheritance 9 Overloading 9 Overriding 10 Base Class 10 Derived Class 10 Constructors 10 Destructors 10 Embedding 10 Virtual Function 10 Resources 11 Programmer’s Guide 12 Naming Convention 12 Comments and Documentation 13 Fundamental Types 14 Predefined Macros 14 Error Handling 15 Memory Management 16 Object Creation, Construction and Destruction 17 Other Design Considerations 17 Development Environment 18 Computer System Requirements 19 Class Hierarchy 19 Tips and Guidelines 20 Following Program Flow 20 Avoid Using Global or Static Variables 21 Difference Between m and mc Declarations 22 Using a Class Hierarchy 22 Starting a new Application 23 Problems with Multithreading and UI 23 Why You Should Never Use malloc() Again 23  Introduction This document describes the MRI C++ Framework Library. In doing so, this document also provides somewhat of a tutorial for programming with C++ at Mark Resources. The MRI Framework is a software library of code that is useful for writing interactive, real-time software for radar signal processing on a computer that runs the Windows operating system. The MRI Framework contains about one hundred classes (or modules) and many thousands of functions, which covers a whole range of activities, such as charting, UI controls, multiprocessing, FFT algorithms, file manipulation, and networking. This document was written with three purposes in mind. First, it is a reference to the classes in the library. This reference is mainly intended to point the programmer in the right direction for any given purpose, since the definitive documentation for using the classes and functions is contained in the code itself. The second purpose of this document