Thanks again. Well, Its getting late. got to sleep. Good night to people in my time zone

Hi all,

I would never suggest beginners to program considerable GUIs by using MSDN because it may last until the cow comes home as Ancient Dragon already pointed out. Maybe a better and clearer way for creating GUIs is QT 4 (has nice bar graph) or wxWidgets (both free), also suggested by Ancient Dragon and niek_e. There is also Fox toolkit from a Netherlands guy which is completely free. Using one of them you can freely roam between Win and Unix. Then you should also use gcc with codeBlocks or wxdevC++ on Win, or KDE on Unix (as I do).
(Best of all would be Delphi or Kylix )
krs,
tesu

I think someone put the winprog tutorial in here, follow it to the tee, it has helped me loads. I'm getting a little better with Windows API, but I am by no means an expert, especially since I'm taking a "break" from coding at the moment. Anyway, goodluck with that, I have found a few other resources I'll try and post in a bit.