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URGENT ! API or GUI

I would like to use API or GUI to do window application
but I hate MFC classes. Could anyone tell me how
to use either GUI or API in detail ? Thank you !

rmichels

that is a large chuck of work to bite off! MFC may not be the best, but it sure does alot for you, in dealing with the mundane issues of WIN Gui APIs and responding to windows messages.

tanc02

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tell me more. Like where can I get those library or classes or tutorials

Answers2000

Charles Petzold is the "classic" book on Windows Programming without using MFC

Programming Windows 95 (Microsoft Programming Series)
Charles Petzold
ISBN: 1556156766
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556156766/o/qid=906970934/sr=2-1/002-8215353-4277855

New Edition in Dec 98 I think

nietod

Also "Teach Yourself Windows Programming in 21 Days" by Charles Calvert iss a great one it gets you started quickly on the essentials and just doesn't bother with a lot of the stuff that you probably don't need. I would say you need the information in these books even if you were going to progrm in MFC. MFC really doesn't cover up the real design of windows very deeply so you need to understand it to use MFC. So if you change your mind and later want to go to MFC, this is good experience anyways.

hariks

hi,
GUI and API is entirely different in the technical concept.
API is functional architecture to GUI Application.

But, I hope you want use API or similar to that without using MFC. Right?
Then, you try the following link,
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Sam_Blackburn/wfc.htm

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