Subj : Re: Windows Procedural Programming
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Mon Jul 25 2005 12:59 pm

In article <qYTEe.158226$go.54415@fed1read05>, snooze386@gmail.com 
says...

> I want to begin developing Windows applications, but I don't have any 
> experience with OOP or Windows programming; only procedural programming. 
> Is it possible to develop Windows applications using only a procedural 
> programming language such as C or Pascal rather than an OOP language?

Sure.  The simplest way to do it is to use MFC with C++, but you can 
write essentially the same program calling the original SDK functions 
with C.

I'd be inclined to bite the bullet and go the C++/MFC route for your 
main application setup and messaging loop.  You can fall back to the 
SDK here and there if you want, but in many cases MFC is basically a 
thin wrapper that has exactly the same functions anyway.  Its the 
difference between calling:
myDC.SomeFunction() and SomeFunction( myHDC ).

- Gerry Quinn

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