Framework application

Framework

This is a sample of an empty window. Great to start your application. Copy this code into your main.cpp and go. Or Download the solution(MS Visual Studio.NET) There's really nothing to it. Anyone who wants create an application quickly has to have something like this. Just don't use the MFC wizard. I always use CREATESTRUCT in the WndProc instead of having a global HINSTANCE handle. Don't use globals unless you really have to. In my opinion globals make messy applications.

#define   STRICT

#include  <windows.h>

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT iMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM
lParam) 

{

CREATESTRUCT           
*cs;

   switch (iMsg) 

   {

   case WM_CREATE :

      cs =
(LPCREATESTRUCT)lParam;

      break;

   case WM_CLOSE :

      DestroyWindow(hwnd);

      break;

   case WM_DESTROY :

      PostQuitMessage(0);

      break;

   }

   return DefWindowProc(hwnd, iMsg, wParam, lParam);

}

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR
szCmdLine, int iCmdShow) 

{

HWND       
hwnd;

MSG        
msg;

   WNDCLASS    wndclass;

char       
szAppName[] = "FrameworkApp";

wndclass.style        
= 0;

   wndclass.lpfnWndProc   = WndProc;

   wndclass.cbClsExtra   
= 0;

   wndclass.cbWndExtra   
= 0;

wndclass.hInstance     = hInstance;

wndclass.hIcon        
= LoadIcon(hInstance, szAppName);

wndclass.hCursor      
= LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);

   wndclass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_BTNFACE +
1);

   wndclass.lpszMenuName  = szAppName;

   wndclass.lpszClassName = szAppName;

   RegisterClass(&wndclass);

   hwnd = CreateWindow(szAppName,

      szAppName,

      WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW
| WS_VISIBLE,

      0, 0, 400, 400,

      NULL, NULL,
hInstance, szCmdLine);

   while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) 

   {

TranslateMessage(&msg);

DispatchMessage(&msg);

   }

   return (int)msg.wParam;

}