Load Forms in Child Window

[parksie]

If you've only just started learning C++, learn the language first before trying to make Windows programs, whether with MFC or the API.

I'm biased and would say learn API afterwards, but that's just me and my experience talking (not my ego, but I have to say this to shout down all the MFC-advocates )

[CornedBee]

Way to go:
console C++ -> API -> (if you want to make really big projects or use fancy programming tricks) MFC

It is good to know MFC even if you don't use it. But it is necessary to know API if you want to debug MFC programs.

[abdul]

API is a lot easier than MFC(that's what I think).

[parksie]

I agree

MFC requires too much learning of how they think you should write programs, so I gave up and wrote them myself

[CornedBee]

hehe
API is easier to learn, but once you found out the trick, MFC is faster to do.

[abdul]

Then nobody has found that trick yet.

[CornedBee]

For complicated things, like MDI, I am way faster with MFC...

[abdul]

That's right but why not start with the BASE of programming Windows (API). If you know API then you don't need to know MFC. But if you know MFC, you still need to know API somewhere when programming.

[CornedBee]

I SAID start with API, but if you want to make BIG projects, you can save you a lot of work by using MFC (that's what it's for).

[abdul]

Originally posted by parksie
Perhaps...

...but I'd still prefer to write my own classes and keep the size down

Exactly, and that way you learn and also write large programs