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    Source code

    Hello,

    can anyone tell me where i can find the source codes of little windows
    applications with those i can play and learn from, for example:

    a little text-editor (like the windows notepad) maybe with the options
    to change the font-style and color, but not too many functions which
    makes the code more complicated for WinAPI-beginners like me?

    I am not interested in MFC only WinAPI!

    Thank you very much!

    greetings,
    newatC

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    From the top of this very board: windows programming links. That should get you started.

    A 'simple' text editor as you have described, at your current level of knowledge, would involve a main window with an edit control. To change the font you'd send the edit control a WM_SETFONT message, to change the colour of text(all of it) and background colour you would handle the parent's WM_CTLCOLOREDIT message.

    The link above contains links to other resources that should get you started; search this board, too, for examples of the messages etc I have mentioned as there will be many examples and discussions of their use.

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    http://www.catch22.net/tuts/
    They have code and explanation. You don't have to read all of them just those which are of interest

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    The best tutorial ever on the Win32 API is The Forger's tutorial which can be found on www.winprog.org

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