C++ Reactive Programming

Event-driven programming on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Corporation created a GUI programming model, which can be considered as the most successful windowing system in the world. The third edition of the Windows software was a runaway success (in 1990) and Microsoft followed this with the Windows NT and Windows 95/98/ME series. Let us look at the event-driven programming model of Microsoft Windows (consult Microsoft documentation for a detailed look at how this programming model works). The following program will help us understand the gist of what is involved in writing Windows Programming using C/C++:

#include <windows.h>//----- Prtotype for the Event Handler FunctionLRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM ...