noob Notepad Clone in C winapi

I picked C because it is a good starting position. Complicated enough to get an understanding of the inner workings but avoids the complications of objects. Stromcodes tutorial is next on my agenda I am sure there is a way to do it in C something using the EM_GETSEL and comparing the WPARAM and LPARAM to see if they are equal, which they should be if no text is selected ( WPARAM and LPARAM should both return the cursor position if no text is selected ). C++ is on my horizon, but I have no interest in C# at this point in time.

Your reasoning is faulty. C++ is far more useful than C, and C will only teach you how to write BAD C++ code. Far better to avoid anything that looks like C, and learn C++. C# is more useful for windows programming, but it's not related to C or C++ at all, so if you want to learn a harder language, C++ is the one to learn, and C is only going to teach you how to do things badly.

That might be true... Using C++ may be a better idea... Like I said in the title I am a noob when it comes to Windows programming. Although, using the Windows API system calls I doubt that the coding is much different for instance:

void DoFileClose( HWND hwnd, LPSTR szFileName )
{
// Variable Declaration
HWND hEdit = GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_EDIT);

if(SendMessage( hEdit, EM_GETMODIFY, 0, 0 ) == TRUE )
{
if( MessageBox( hwnd, "File has been changed.\nSave it now?", "Confirm Close",
MB_ICONQUESTION | MB_YESNO ) == IDYES )
{
SendMessage( hwnd, WM_COMMAND, ID_FILE_SAVE, 0);
}
}

for( int i = 0; i != sizeof(szFileName); i++ )
{
szFileName[i] = '\0';
}
SetDlgItemText( hwnd, IDC_MAIN_EDIT, "" );
SendMessage( hEdit, EM_EMPTYUNDOBUFFER, 0, 0 );
SendMessage( hEdit, EM_SETMODIFY, 0, 0 );
SetFocus( hEdit );
return;
}

Would this be coded any different in c++ and btw I think the whole ++ is a really bad joke :)

Would this be coded any different in c++ and btw I think the whole ++ is a really bad joke.

What's a bad joke ? C++ is C plus object orientation. Yes, the C++ code would look a lot different. Any code that uses handles and calls non class methods, is probably bad code in C++.

The fact is that most people who learn C++, learn C first, and as a result, they write bad C++ code. Learning C++ first and going back to learn C, makes more sense, because you learn how to do it right first, then learn how to live with the limitations of C.

C++ is the superset to C in C and C++ the ++ Means incriment by one which to me is just a really, really bad joke.

Well, I guess it was meant as a pun, but it's not inaccurate. It's not brilliant humour, but it told people what they were getting, when the language was new, and C was the main language used for systems programming :-)

Its still used in almost everything Unix. I'll start Stromcode tomorrow but I am already a thousand lines into this so I am kinda antsy to finish it. Want to see crap code, this is what I have so far for testing for selection and no it doesnt work:

WPARAM wPar;
LPARAM lPar;
SendMessage(hEdit, EM_GETSEL, wPar, lPar );

if( wPar == lPar )
{
EnableMenuItem( hMenu, ID_EDIT_COPY, MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_GRAYED );
}
else
{
EnableMenuItem( hMenu, ID_EDIT_COPY, MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_ENABLED );
}

DWORD Check;
Check = SendMessage(hEdit, EM_GETSEL, NULL, NULL );

if( HIWORD(Check) == LOWORD(Check) )
{
EnableMenuItem( hMenu, ID_EDIT_COPY, MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_GRAYED );
}
else
{
EnableMenuItem( hMenu, ID_EDIT_COPY, MF_BYCOMMAND | MF_ENABLED );
}
This is the code that finally worked it wasn't the returning lParam or wParam that contained the cursor position it was the hi and lo value of the DWORD returned.