WDS

Windows Development System

This Windows Development System (WDS) is a set of Dynace https://blakemcbride.github.io/Dynace/ classes that makes the development of Windows GUI applications extremely easy. It also works on Linux & macOS through the WINE Win32 library. It has been used in commercial applications for nearly 20 years.

WDS includes:

Win32 GUI development system (portable through WINE)
interfaces with Java, ODBC, OLE
SQL interface / class library
250 pages of documentation https://blakemcbride.github.io/WDS/manual/WDS.pdf
tutorial

Source code for this system is at: https://github.com/blakemcbride/WDS

Build instructions are at: docs/BUILD.txt

A small example

The following will give you a small taste of how easy WDS makes the development of GUI applications:

A complete “Hello World” Windows application

#include "generics.h"

int	start()
{
	object	win;

	win = vNew(MainWindow, "My Test Application");

	vPrintf(win, "Hello, World!\n");

	return gProcessMessages(win);
}

resources.h is created by your resource editor that comes with Windows.

#include "generics.h"
#include "resource.h"

static	long	file_message(object wind, unsigned id);
static	long	file_exit(object wind, unsigned id);

int	start()
{
	object	win;

	win = vNew(MainWindow, "My Test Application");

	mLoadMenu(win, IDR_MENU1);
	mAssociate(win, ID_FILE_MESSAGE, file_message);
	mAssociate(win, ID_FILE_EXIT, file_exit);

	return gProcessMessages(win);
}

static	long	file_message(object wind, unsigned id)
{
	gMessage(wind, "File Message");
	return 0L;
}

static	long	file_exit(object wind, unsigned id)
{
	gQuitApplication(Application, 0);
	return 0L;
}

Add a dialog

#include "generics.h"
#include "resource.h"

static	long	file_message(object wind, unsigned id);
static	long	file_dialog(object wind, unsigned id);
static	long	file_exit(object wind, unsigned id);

int	start()
{
	object	win;

	win = vNew(MainWindow, "My Test Application");

	mLoadMenu(win, IDR_MENU1);
	mAssociate(win, ID_FILE_MESSAGE, file_message);
	mAssociate(win, ID_FILE_DIALOG, file_dialog);
	mAssociate(win, ID_FILE_EXIT, file_exit);

	return gProcessMessages(win);
}

static	long	file_message(object wind, unsigned id)
{
	gMessage(wind, "File Message");
	return 0L;
}

static	long	file_dialog(object wind, unsigned id)
{
	object	dlg;
	int	r;
	
	dlg = mNewDialog(ModalDialog, DL1, wind);

	r = gPerform(dlg);

	gDispose(dlg);

	return 0L;
}

static	long	file_exit(object wind, unsigned id)
{
	gQuitApplication(Application, 0);
	return 0L;
}

Getting started

See docs/ORIENT.txt

This system was written by Blake McBride

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