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Stupid question from a begineer

Hi all,
I've often written simple programmes in C and everytime I run them it's via a DOS looking window. Now this looks a bit dated to me and I was wondering what language do i need to know so that I can have a fancy windows looking GUI where you fill in the input values into a box. Is it possible to incorporate the original C code somehow. Stupid question but we all gotta start somewhere! Cheers
Shav

Daniel Van Der Werken

Shav:

To have a fancy windows-looking program, you need to write a windows C program. It will have a WinMain() function, a ton of create windows structure stuff, and a messge loop that sends windows messages to your program along with a standard default windows procedure called WinProc().

There are a ton of books out there on how to do this. You'll need a C compile that has or knows about the Windows programming environment to include the windows.h file, and library files. This is quite a large thing to do.

In the meantime, a simple C program written without all of this will run in a console window (DOS box). Most of the C programs i write *for* windows are console apploications as they need to do things in the background and a display is not important.

The topic of windows programming is extremely vast and complex.

---Dan---

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