Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Dialog FAQ

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 03:00
Example: dlg_three Now don't get me wrong, this is a Tutorial, not a Reference, but some questions people ask SO often that I figured I might as well include them here. Changing Colours In general, the only reason you'd want to do this is to simulate an link on a dialog box or some ... [More]

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Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Standard Controls: Button, Edit, List Box

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 02:59
Example: ctl_one I realize I've already used buttons in previous examples, so you should already be more or less familiar with them, however I figured that since I was using them in this example I might as well add it to the title for the sake of being complete. Controls One thing to remember... [More]

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Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Modeless Dialogs

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 02:58
Example: dlg_two Now we take a look at CreateDialog(), DialogBox()'s sister function. The difference is that while DialogBox() implements it's own message loop and does not return untill the dialog is closed, CreateDialog() acts more like a window created withCreat... [More]

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Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Dialogs, GUI coders best friend

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 02:57
Example: dlg_one There's hardly a windows program out there that doesn't use dialog boxes. Just go File -> Open in any text editor or any other kind of editor for that matter and voila, you are presented with a dialog box, one that probably allows you to select a file to be opened. Dialogs ar... [More]

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Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Menus and Icons

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 02:57
Example: menu_one This is just a small section to show how to add basic menus to your window. Usually you use a pre-made menu resource. This will be in an .rc file and will be compiled and linked into your .exe. This is rather compiler specific, commercial compilers will have a resource editor ... [More]

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Feb 5 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Using Resources

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 02:56
You may also want to refer to the Appendices at the end of this tutorial for more information on resources with VC++ and BC++. Before we get any deeper I will cover the topic of resources so that I won't have to re-write it for each section.You don't actually need to compile the stuff in this sec... [More]

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Feb 3 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Understanding the Message Loop

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 17:49
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]

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Feb 3 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Handling Messages

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 17:47
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]

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Feb 3 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - A Simple Window

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 17:46
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]

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Feb 3 2010

Win32 API Programming Tutorial - Getting Started

Category: Programming | Windows | Win32 API Programming Tutorial Ryan @ 17:45
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]

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