(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I have recently been reading an online WINAPI tutorial, its really great.

The first few times i quickly ran through this i was just playing around, kind of got the gist on how to use it, not write but get the Gist.. you know what i mean?

After playing around, i read it fully in depth going through each step writing it all into DevCpp and trying to understand it all, finally understood the concept.

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heres my example code of a small form:

    #include <windows.h>



const char ClassName[] = "MyWindowClass";



LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND WindowHandle, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)

{

    switch(msg)

    {

        case WM_CLOSE: DestroyWindow(WindowHandle); break;

        case WM_DESTROY: PostQuitMessage(0); break;

        case WM_LBUTTONDOWN: MessageBox(NULL,"You Called? With teh Left click?","Ey?",NULL); break;

        case WM_RBUTTONDOWN: MessageBox(NULL,"You Called? With teh Right click?","Ey?",NULL); break;

        default: return DefWindowProc(WindowHandle, msg, wParam, lParam);

    }

    return 0;

}



int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdShow, int nCmdShow)

{

    WNDCLASSEX wc;

    MSG Msg;

    

    wc.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);

    wc.style         = 0;

    wc.lpfnWndProc   = WndProc;

    wc.cbClsExtra    = 0;

    wc.cbWndExtra    = 0;

    wc.hInstance     = hInstance;

    wc.hIcon         = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);

    wc.hCursor       = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);

    wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW);

    wc.lpszMenuName  = NULL;

    wc.lpszClassName = ClassName;

    wc.hIconSm       = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);

    

    if(!RegisterClassEx(&wc))

    {

        MessageBox(NULL, "Windows Registration Failed!", "Error", NULL);

        return 0;

    }

    

    HWND WindowHandle;

    

    WindowHandle = CreateWindowEx(

        WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,

        ClassName,

        "My Window",

        WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,

        CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 240, 240,

        NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL

        );

    

    if(WindowHandle == NULL)

    {

        MessageBox(NULL, "Create Window Failed!","Error",NULL);

        return 0;

    }

    

    ShowWindow(WindowHandle, nCmdShow);

    UpdateWindow(WindowHandle);

    

    while(GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0) > 0)

    {

        TranslateMessage(&Msg);

        DispatchMessage(&Msg);

    }

    return 0;

}

Extra Tips:

To begin this tutorial you need have a good understanding of:

[]Structures
[]Pointerss
[]Functions
[]Windows API Variables (LPSTR, UINT, Ect).

If you need help, Google is your friend.

It's all simple, it's just a new-ish syntax you need to get used to along with calling conventions (WINAPI, _stdcall, those guys), and methods xP

Like I said, I usually don't do important work in C++, most of my free-lance programming is done in either java for android or in C# for making the GUI quickly, although I love C++ more, C# is so much easier to make a GUI in >_< Whatevz though, nice tut for beginners. I feel bad that you post these and then no one thanks them because they don't understand them, I feel for yah :'(

I'll rep yah