Creating Customized GUI's - need help

[pghTech]

I am working on a program that uses MFC for generating the user GUI.

I was wondering how developers generate the "customized" GUI's that is not any windows or MFC standard "looking" interface.

Just throwing out some examples, "Bear Share" or any Windows based Music/DVD player (i.e WinDVD)) which have their own customized GUI.

Are these just "resource files' created? And if so, can any point me to any tutorials or informational sites that would help me in creating and implementing my own?

 

[Salem]

How is this different from your previous question?

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1265261&page=1

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[pghTech]

Thanks for the help Salem, greatly appreciate it.

To answer your question, the previous post was in regard to created standard windows gui interfaces as you would with using the "standard" gui tools in MFC, *BUT* with another API/EDI. Since I am new to programming and windows GUI's, I was unaware of any other tool besides MFC, which is why I put up the other post.

*THIS* post is in regard to creating your own *customized* GUI's as I directly stated in the post, and as examples, I listed "non-standard" looking GUI's that other programs use.

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[Miros]

Most likely, they use OnPaint or WM_PAINT to paint their own buttons and such.

 

[dEVooXiAm]

First of, MFC is not a GUI standard, but rather a collection of Windows API wrapper classes.

Windows API (and MFC too) provides you with tools (functions) to control the look of your application windows. Now try figuring out those functions yourself, or simply find an example application on internet and examine it..

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[Miros]

If you want a reference book you can hold in your hand, get one of the Charles Petzold "Programming Windows XX." I have the series from Win 3.1 and OS/2 up to Win 98. Anything written for 98 will run on never versions of the O/S and you should be able to quickly figure out the extra bits (and it will be educational).