CreateWindow Archives

Win32 Programming – Register the window class

By venkatPosted on July 18, 2014Posted in Visual C++, Win32 Programming

As we discussed in our previous article, we can use pre-defined window class names (eg: BUTTON, STATIC, etc.) or our own window class names, when calling the “CreateWindow” function. But in this article, we will learn to create our own window class and use the same while creating our own window. Step 1. In order […]

Win32 Programming – How to create a simple GUI based application?

By venkatPosted on July 14, 2014Posted in Visual C++, Win32 Programming

By adding Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the applications we can change the whole look and feel of the applications and users will feel more comfortable accessing the GUI-based applications than the text-based or console-based applications. Win32 API provides a vast number of API functions to create and deal with Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications. […]