Programming Windows®, Fifth Edition

A Window of One’s Own

Creating a window is as easy as calling the CreateWindow function.

Well, not really. Although the function to create a window is indeed named CreateWindow and you can find documentation for this function at /Platform SDK/User Interface Services/Windowing/Windows/Window Reference/Window Functions, you’ll discover that the first argument to CreateWindow is something called a “window class name” and that a window class is connected to something called a “window procedure.” Perhaps before we try calling CreateWindow, a little background information might prove helpful.

An Architectural Overview

When programming for Windows, you’re really engaged in a type of object-oriented programming. This is most evident in the object you’ll ...