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From: hdan@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Dan Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Windows programming in C
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Date: 29 Jun 90 16:52:28 GMT
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In article <4b476718.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
>
>  .........   Why can't someone do this in Windows?  Why can't
>  I buy a C library and set of <include> files to make writing 
>  Windows apps simple so it doesn't take 100 lines, or whatever
>  to do "hello world"?   The first guy who comes up with a good
>  product along these lines will have a real money-maker.
>
>                                                    ---Peter

Why don't you try using the "GENERIC" application that comes with the SDK?
All it does is provide a "working" template of a very boring application,
which you can then go into and change incrementally to be more like the
exciting application that you want it to become.  Using GENERIC, "hello world"
takes about 1 line of additional coding: just hunt down the WM_PAINT message
and replace the FillRect with a WriteString (or whatever Windows calls them,
I'm personally an OS/2 PM programmer :-).