Third-party form designers

[AlbafaN]

Anyone know of any good form designers? I dont like using MFC, so I'm using CreateWindow for all my controls, but getting coordinates is a hassle, id rather use a simple form designer where i can just draw some controls on it and get the coordinates (maybe even set some properites, and let it generate my CreateWindow code for all my controls for me )

[abdul]

Actually, I am working on this type of project.
Meanwhile, you can also use a resouce dialog box and there are some resource editor that will let you create controls at design time using drag and drop. Infact, Visual C++ comes with its own good one.

[AlbafaN]

ignore this post.

[AlbafaN]

Do most ppl design their MAIN form using VC++'s dialog editor (and im not talking about MFC).

[AlbafaN]

Does this all seem correct?... Also, my window never gets a WM_DESTROY.. I thought it was supposed to? Just gets a WM_CLOSE.

#include "windows.h"
#include "resource.h"
#include "main.h"

int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst,HINSTANCE hPrev,LPSTR line,int CmdShow)
{
	HWND hMainDlg;
	MSG msg;

	hMainDlg = CreateDialog(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_MAIN_DLG), NULL, MainDlgProc);
	ShowWindow(hMainDlg, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

	while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }

	return msg.wParam;
}

BOOL CALLBACK MainDlgProc(HWND hwnd, UINT Message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch(Message)
    {
        case WM_COMMAND:
            switch(LOWORD(wParam))
            {
                case IDC_OK:
					switch(HIWORD(wParam))
					{
						case BN_CLICKED:
							MessageBox(hwnd, "Hello World!", "Hi", MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
							break;
					}
					break;

                case IDC_CANCEL:
					switch(HIWORD(wParam))
					{
						case BN_CLICKED:
							SendMessage(hwnd, WM_CLOSE, NULL, NULL);
							break;
					}
					break;
            }
			break;

		case WM_CLOSE:
			DestroyWindow(hwnd);
			PostQuitMessage(0);
			break;

        default:
            return FALSE;
    }

    return TRUE;
}

[CornedBee]

AlbafaN: That depends. If the main window is really a form - that is a window with lots of controls - then a dialog template makes sense. If not it doesn't make sense.
I made a single app that uses a dialog as main window...