Tag: win32

How to build high DPI aware native Windows desktop applications

Posted on by Marius Bancila

If you’re developing native applications for Windows using Win32 or MFC and you want to support high DPIs so that the application looks crisp on any display, you have to do a lot of things by hand. That is because the technologies for building native UIs, that is MFC, GDI, GDI+, do not provide DPI scaling support. In this article, I will walk through some of the problems of supporting DPI scaling and the solutions for them.

A tale of two flags: DS_CONTROL and WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT

Posted on by Marius Bancila

I recently ran into problems with an MFC application that was hosting some Windows Form user control in a modal dialog; the application hanged after it lost focus. The problem was the window received WM_GETDLGCODE message in an infinite loop making it impossible to handle anything else. After a lot of digging, I found that…

Windows Runtime

Posted on by Marius Bancila

Windows Runtime, or shortly WinRT, is a new runtime (siting on top of the Windows kernel) that allows developers to write Metro style applications for Windows 8, using a variety of languages including C/C++, C#, VB.NET or JavaScript/HTML5. Microsoft has started rolling out information about Windows 8 and the new runtime at BUILD. WinRT is…