All about owned windows

1. You didn't cover everything about owned windows
eg: And this caused me a big headache. Owned windows should return DefWindowProc when handling WM_SHOWWINDOW,
to ensure that they are hidden/shown when owner window is hidden/shown. If not, a possible continuation is,
owner window gets minimized; but never gets restored when clicked on the taskbar icon.

2. Yes, you can change the owner of a window, it doesnt have to be set when creating the window.
SetWindowLongPtr(ownedWindow,GWLP_HWNDPARENT,owner).

Sorry about causing any trouble, but system event handling properly is another topic.
People still use raw Win32 codes or MFC still???

What alternative were you suggesting?

C# for faster development (Agreed it does not match the performance of a VC++ app, not sure why that hasn't happened yet).
But in modern day and age, with lack of C++ developers, C# is a practical choice !

Why would you then post Win32 code here. I am sure C# has no CreateWindowEx function. and at any rate, using Win32 code in C# would fail for the same reason I mentioned right?

No, I think you misunderstood, what I meant when you are building a new app, C# is a good option .
I posted this article a decade ago - and i was wondering if this article is still relevant.

oh you mean the article. It is for me. I still use win32. I still use Cpp. I have a whole library built on top of win32.

Great to know. Is there a demo or is your lib open source?

Happy you ask. It is in test and develop stage now. As I am still adding features, redesigning and testing for errors as I use it to build my apps.

I mainly work with CodeBlocks; but my library would be compatible with MSVC. And I have indeed used it in MSVC. I also started writing my library from writing Android Cpp programs on my Android phone. So it is compitable with Linux and Android; except for the win32 component.

I strive for fast code and low memory footprint. And my code is meant to be a drop in solution. Each component can be used on its own. My win32 library is mostly wrappers around the win32 api. Some of it such as Jav::win32::Process had to be abstracted thoroughly.

If you would like a copy, you can link me at d.master51@yahoo.com.

Here is a synapsis of my entire library.

include
   jav
      config
         compiler.h
         types.h
         native_type.h
      console
         screen.h
         keyboard.h
      File
         Buffer.h
         File.h
      mem
         AutoMemory.h
         AutoMemory.inl
         AutoObject.h
         safe_pointer.h
         safe_pointer.inl
     graphics
         graphics.h
         Png.h
         Png_loader.h
         Align.h
         gif.h
      string
         builder.h
         char.h
         charconv.h
         numconv.h
         compare.h
         compare.inl
         cstring.h
         cstring.inl
         MultiString.h
         parser.h
         unicode.h
      test
         assert.h
         report.h
         type_name.h
      sfml
         TextBox.h
      win32
          config
            target_win_xp
            target_win_vista
            target_win_7
            target_win_8
            target_win_10
         graphics
            gdi.h
            AppContext.h
            Canvas.h
         Window
             Content.h
             Window.h
             SimpleWindow.h
         widgets
            TextView_v3
               TextView.h
               CharObject.h
               Spannable.h
               TextViewCanvas.h
            widgets.h
            widgets_ex.h
            custom_events.h
            Ruler.h
            TabsBarEx.h
            TextView.h
            Toast.h
            ToolTipEx.h
         win32.h
         window.h
         widgets.h
         AutoComObject.h
         debug.h
         dir.h
         dlg.h
         DLL.h
         graphics.h
         GUID.h
         thread.h
         process.h
         registry
         res.h
         util.h
      bits.h
      bits.inl
      config.h
      console.h
      dir.h
      endian.h
      error.h
      file.h
      IterWrap.h
      ptr.h
      string.h
      test.h
      time.h
      util.h
      win32.h

I understand this is a graphics library to render components, if you could use low level coding like open gl with gpu shaders which could be used in android and ios development to fast performing apps, would be awesome.
If you look at telegram, the performance of the app is in a completely different level - I hope someday your library grows big and cater to many platforms !

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