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C++ Books About Custom GUIs (winapi)

I'm looking for some books that will teach me how to create a custom GUI interface using the winapi. What I want to create is something that looks like this

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/2601/image1eal.png

I don't want to use any libraries like GTK or QT, I want to do it from scratch so I can learn. I've looked everywhere on google and here, but I can't find any answers to this.

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If you want to use the raw Win32 API for your application then the best book is "Programming Windows" by Petzold. It's the definitive book for raw Win32 programming.

JaredPar  2010-01-04 06:49:34
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I don't know it is the best, but some of my friends suggested this one when I wanted to learn: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/

rahmivolkan  2010-01-04 06:54:17

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