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Understanding the message loop and entire message sending structure of windows programs is essential in order to write anything but the most trivial programs. Now that we've tried out message handling a little, we should look a little deeper into the whole process, as things can get very confusing... [More]

Tags: win32 api programming tutorial, c++

Example: window_clickAlright, we've got a window, but it doesn't do anything except what DefWindowProc() allows it to, like be sized, maximised, etc... Not really all that exciting.In the next section I am going to show you how to modify what you already have to do something new. This way ... [More]

Tags: win32 api programming tutorial, c++

Example: simple_window Sometimes people come on IRC and ask "How do I make a window?"...Well it's not entirely that simple I'm afraid. It's not difficult once you know what you're doing but there are quite a few things you need to do to get a window to show up; And they're more than can be simply... [More]

Tags: win32 api programming tutorial, c++

What this tutorial is all about This tutorial is intended to present to you the basics (and common extras) of writing programs using the Win32 API. The language used is C, most C++ compilers will compile it as well. As a matter of fact, most of the information is applicable to any language that c... [More]

Tags: win32 api programming tutorial, c++