Re: Win32 API Wraper library?

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"John Blogger" <blenderhack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just plain win32 Api app development is time consuming.

I'm looking for a C++ library that should allow me to play with
windows standard controls (button, listboxes etc) and also give an
easy way to make custom controls easily. My specifications are >like
that of MFC but not complex like it. And the compiled exe should >be
small.

If you can't understand MFC, you won't understand any other library. MFC is
one of the thinnest, easiest wrapper libraries to work with (at least until
Microsoft merged that BCG garbage with it). ATL is way more complex and
unreadable / undebuggable.

To "play with standard" controls in MFC requires zero code on your part. Its
all created through the wizards & drag and drop.


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