quote: Original post by DerekSaw

There''s no point in starting with a 100 line Hello World windows program when you can start with a 3 line console Hello World program.

#include <windows.h>int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPCTSTR, int){  ::MessageBox(0, "Hello, World!", "Welcome", MB_OK);  return 0;}   

Well, just 2 lines in the WinMain()!

[EDIT] Anyway, building up your experience on pointers/references in console mode would be easier than figuring out errors like "unable to convert ''void*'' from ''HINSTANCE__*'' ".

[edited by - DerekSaw on December 27, 2002 9:45:03 PM]

@DerekSaw: I guess you can program a hello world program that way, but you should look at Microsoft''s idea of what Hello World is. In Visual C++, when you create a new project and normally specify ''Empty Workspace'', specify ''Hello World'' or something like that. It''s just – pathetic.



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Well said. I just wanna point out that comparing the popular "Hello, World!" with a Windowed version of "Hello, World!" is like apple vs orange. The former have text only, whereas the latter have system menus, graphics, fonts, maximize/minimize/close buttons... etc.

In short, writing 100 lines of "Hello, World" isn''t useless.