ABSTRACT
This chapter is about programming the Windows graphical user interface (GUI). The Windows GUI consists of child windows and built-in controls, such as status bars, toolbars, ToolTips, trackbars, up-down controls, and many others. The discussion also includes general purpose controls such as message boxes, text boxes, combo boxes, as well as the most used of the common controls. All of these components are required to build amodernWindows program; it is difficult to imagine a graphics application that does not contain most of these elements.
