Re: What 's the difference between win32 app and MFC

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Hello!!

You wrote the following
A Win32 Windows application can be written entirely in the Win32 API, or
it can use MFC.

I just wonder is it possible to mix both use win32 API and MFC in a win32
application am I right?
Or do you have to chose either of these two alternatives?


//Tony


"David Wilkinson" <no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> Tony Johansson wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I just wonder what the difference is between a native win32-app and MFC.
>>
>> What I know is that you can use Win32 API in both cases.
>>
>> I think an MFC application is connected with a GUI which a win32 is not.
>> You may correct me if I'm wrong on this point.
>>
>> //Tony
>>
>
> Tony:
>
> A Win32 application can either be a Console Application (no GUI) or a
> Windows application (GUI).
>
> A Win32 console application runs in a command window and typically does
> not use MFC, because most of MFC is GUI-related. A carefully written
> console application will compile and run on other systems (e.g. linux
> using the gcc compiler).
>
> A Win32 Windows application can be written entirely in the Win32 API, or
> it can use MFC. If you want to see how to write Windows applications
> without MFC (and without any wizards) look at the book "Programming
> Windows 95" by Charles Petzold.
>
> HTH,
>
> David Wilkinson


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