winAPI

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:14 am

I have been messing around with Irrlicht then that led me to looking at the source to the Font Tool, It helped me understand the winAPI, I have never been able to understand the WinAPI this well till I looked at that source, one thing I don't understand is why they made it so complicated, I mean when you look at Irrlicht it is so easy I know its two different things but Why would they make it so complecated to make GUI applications, they could have made it a lot easier. Now people made things such as resource editors and form designers, because its hard as hell to write GUI apps, for me anyways... Anyways I'm just happy that I finally understand it. Since then I have been working with Delphi and VB(ew)... So VIVA LA OPENSOURCE!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:15 am

sorry, i babbled...

visitor · Post by **visitor** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:08 am

Its not that the WinAPI was meant to be hard or complicated to use. Its just the fact its not object oriented, so everything is structure based, thus, the apparental disorder.

You can always try GUI toolkits such as the amazing WxWidgets, which is cross-platform, object oriented, and contains a lot of docs, and provides a big suit of samples showing different functionality of the toolkit.

Notice for the upcoming longhorn, M$ is about to release a new API : WinFX, which will be OO, and with a better design (and obviously .NET based, so VB#, C# and managed C++)

If you know C++, I highly recommend you to use the aforementioned wxwidgets, give it a shot, you wont regret!

Cheers son

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:16 am

Well now i have a resource editor and when I want to make tools and such I just call the Dialog for the main... I can work with all the controls with GetDlgItem and such... It is getting easier... Thanks anyway I have tried wxWidgets it is great... But winAPI is getting easier for me... I hate .NET by the way and managed c++, c# i hate... VB.net sucks... The only two languages I love are Delphi and C/C++...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:00 am

Look on Microsft's site for a utility called " Control Spy"
it can be a big help at times.

danieLs · Post by **danieLs** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:38 am

well i hate .net platform too but eventualy i'll have to move to it ... i think[/b]