Windows API in C/C++

Help, I have no idea how to correctly use the API to create windows and fill them with text and shit.

Give me information, tutorials, etc.

>>1
Windows
C++

Wat.

>>2
AIDS

Cancer

Wat.

I have just finished a project on Windows. As you're not very specific, I presume by Windows API you mean what Microsoft want you to use this week. That's currently .NET. So read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/68td296t.aspx and about a thousand other pages off MSDN.

This isn't easy, but then again if you're using C++ I assume you're getting paid for your code so it's worthwhile.

No, I'm not interested in "Visual" C++ or any of that .NET dogshit.  Just real code C or C++ code.

Drop Sepples, learn C.

The Microsoft .NET platform gives to the developper the latest cutting-edge 3-tier framework leveraging the power of virtual machine and test-driven development using managed and legacy component to create windows and fill them with text and shit while reducing TCO and time-to-market.

>>7
Boring.  I just want to understand how to use the API properly to, say, make a program like mIRC or some shit like a browser or something.  More vagueness to come possibly.

>>8
Everything has been already answered in MSDN.

>>8
GUI programming is boring and tedious. Get used to it.

>>10
Cool.  But I want to learn to do it.

HALP

>>11
.NET

what is a Sepples?

>>13
It tastes like A++.

>>14
I see what u did thar

wait waht?  I still don't know what to do lol

Direct me to tutorials on figuring out what the shit I'm supposed to do

>>16
Read ``Thinking in Sepples''.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Thinking+in+Sepples&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
There isn't a book with that title

>>18
Oh yes there is. It's like saying that there is no book with the title ``SoE''

Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Sepples. The rhyming is no coincidence.

win32.hlp

Now GTFO.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/mindex.html

There isn't a book with that title
http://www.google.com/search?q=Bruce+Eckel++Sepples&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

theForger's tutorial is still online.

MASM is an assembler with associated tutorials on interfacing with win32 API. Searching for that will lead you to the win32 .hlp file mentioned in >>21. It's from Win95 era, but useful since Windows keeps a lot of backward compatibility.

Charles Petzold's book "Programming Windows 95" was ususally the first text book an API programmer bought. I don't know what the current leader is. But I know Petzold kept updating his book all the way through .NET.

Google'ing for sample code tends to lead to MFC-based programs, which is a library built on top of the Win32 API. Prosise wrote the leading book on MFC.

SEEPLES

Who is Seeples?

>>26
The anti-cudder

Doesn't anyone mind the fact that Simon Peyote Joints is from microsoft?

>>1
Read the documentation for RegisterClassEx, CreateWindowEx and WindowProc very carefully. That is the basics of creating a window and you must know how this works. Then, read up on window messages and look up sample code for a message loop. And so on.

>>29
DON'T HELP HIM!!

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>>28
No.

>>32
okay ;)

>>31
I don't understand

>>34
It's stupid crap, like almost every post in this board.
And you're encouraging the little psychopath when you type, "I don't understand". PLEASE go to a non-4chan, moderated discussion board or IRC channel or newsgroup.

>>34
Ancient meme, making fun of winapi.

sauce on the NULL meme?

>>37
windows.h

>>35
>>31,34 is same person and you have been trolled constantly.


public class NotNull implements Rule {
  String objName = null;
  Object o = null;
 
  public NotNull(String objName, Object o) {
    this.objName = objName;
    this.o = o;
  }
 
  public void check() throws RuleException {
    if (o == null) {
      throw new RuleException(ErrorMessages.ErrorCode.OBJ_IS_NULL, objName);
    }
  }
}