[Mrafcho001]

This is my first programming tutorial i've ever written. Also I am not all that great with english, spell checker fixed the spelling but grammer and sentence structure still sucks. Please ask if you want anything clearfied.

Thank you.

.txt version here:
http://www.martin.th...0to%20Win32.txt
or .doc version as at attachment

the .doc has colors

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This post has been edited by Mrafcho001: 19 December 2005 - 08:49 PM

[Piperlester]

Excellent!

I just read through the entire tutorial, and actually understand it.

I'll be sure to recommend it from now on

[Xenophobia]

[FONT=Courier]Very nice tutorial. I needed to learn more about creating common controls and your tutorial helped. Thank you.

[shikha]

i was trying the samr prg....... n everything was gr8 until it came to running of the prg.... i was triying to run it but i couldnt ....... plz suggest me some ways.....................

[Mrafcho001]

Post your questions in the correct forum, please.

You can start by showing is us the code, what you expect to happen and what is actually happening.
We will then help you solve the problem.

Thank you.

[2fletch]

This is a great tutorial.

[rs4]

This is a great tutorial, thanks.
If it doesn't work for you(I know this was the case for me in VS express C++ 2008), it could be because strings and characters need to be specified as wchar_t and precede strings with L, like this L"......".

[ScytheXV8]

Hey, thank you for the great tutorial. It worked great as an introduction to windows programming, explaining things satisfactory without getting too complicated(that's what msdn is for ).

One note though; in the Controls program, handling the close button using PostQuitMessage(0) didn't close the application. According to msdn, the DestroyWindow() function performs all closure operations for the window and the PostQuitMessage(0) posts a message to exit the message loop, so I used DestroyWindow() which worked fine(sending the WM_DESTROY message which is handled later in the loop using PostQuitMessage(0)).

[Aldahbra]

rs4, on 12 July 2009 - 09:39 PM, said:

This is a great tutorial, thanks.
If it doesn't work for you(I know this was the case for me in VS express C++ 2008), it could be because strings and characters need to be specified as wchar_t and precede strings with L, like this L"......".

I couldn't get it to work in VS2010 until I read this. I just added the L

 MessageBox(NULL, L"Hello World!", L"Dream in code", MB_OK);

Now a nice little box pops up

[Nuked]

Ooooh.. Really nice! I like it alot

[kiasta]

I know this is an old post but the first link no longer works.

[Wuzseen]

For those looking at this helpful guide. If you're using visual studio, it might not work. As someone suggested above you can put L in front of your strings as such:

L"test"

ALSO (this is probably the easiest way to fix it)

Go to project -> project properties. Expand configuration properties and change from unicode to multi-byte character set.

[Aphex19]

Excellent, well done.

[MirrorFish]

Hello,
Good intro to GUI with Win32 API! Keep going.

I myself collect samples of code to quickly reuse. Something alike is in my collection.

What about something more sophisticated ? Like dialog with "TreeView" control that works as the navigation bar for something to the right ? Greed control ? Tabs ?

Also I would like to read more about using "Owner draw" for the window borders (like custom and system independent gradient), caption and controls inside the window.

Regards

[Jimbo7136]

This is something I have been wishing I could read for awhile.

So glad to find a tutorial like this, explains so many things I've been wondering.

Thank You