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I have been taking a little look at Win32 API and I have sort of understood the creation of Windows, I was wondering if it is necessary to know the code that you make it with or just the changes that you would need to make to the code. So far I know how to make a message pop-up when (for example) the window is minimized. How would I output text onto the screen and maybe get an input from the user, like you do with console programming.
Don't you feel you need a tutorial?
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
http://www.adrianxw.dk/SoftwareSite/index.html
As I remember Win32 meesage box function gets its message as an argument.
Ok, the forge'r's tutorial has stuff about text but it is written in C, whereas the tutorial I use is in C++ but doesn't seem to say anything about text.
Tutorial in C++ involving text with textout and some simple operations with edit controls
http://www.relisoft.com/win32/generic.html
http://www.relisoft.com/win32/controls.html
You could use the simple control thing by plugging something like this into your code (inside WM_CREATE or something)
And then do stuff with edit. Alternatively you could learn about resources and create resource based controls instead of createwindow.Code:HWND hEdit = CreateWindow("EDIT", "", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE, 10, 10, 50, 20, hwnd, (HMENU) 0x1234, GetModuleHandle(0), 0);
Edit edit(hwnd, 0x1234);