Win API or not?

[chipp]

i wanna ask, what is the best of windows programming for C++ now? is it still using win API or is there any better one?

[salem c]

The windows API is a vast playing field covering file systems, networking, GUI, graphics, video, sound, etc etc.

What aspect of it are you concerned about?

[Grey Wolf]

Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the "successor"* of Windows API (Win32 API). It supports development in C++/WinRT (standard C++) and C++/CX (Component Extensions, a language based on C++) [C++/WinRT is recommended], as well as other scripting and managed languages.

A good starting point...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-apis/

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* I believe Microsoft describe it that way, I'm not sure if it is but it is worth looking at.

Edit Windows Runtime (WinRT) is NOT to be confused with Windows RT.

[artganseforth]

Alternatively there are several 'high level' and somtimes platform-independent GUI-libraries available, as i.e. wxWidgets (that i'm using), Qt, fltk etc..

I use wxWidgets because it is open source, well documented and easy to learn. Also there is not so much 'overhed' needed to be programmed 'manually'. So i.e. a resizable and closeable main-window can be created with only a few program-lines like this:

#include <wx/wx.h>

class MyApp: public wxApp {
    virtual bool OnInit();
};

IMPLEMENT_APP(MyApp)

class MyFrame : public wxFrame {
    public:
        MyFrame();
};


bool MyApp::OnInit() {
    MyFrame *frame = new MyFrame();

    SetTopWindow(frame);

    return true;
}

MyFrame::MyFrame() : wxFrame( NULL, -1, _("Test"), wxPoint(250, 150), wxSize(450, 350)) {
    Show(true);
}