Simple windows programming

[dchunt]

Now i learnt basic windows programming long time ago and now use dev-cpp,i can run the simple Hello World program in that,but don't know how or where to implement cout and if statements type programming ?

#include <windows.h>


LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);


char szClassName[ ] = "WindowsApp";

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hThisInstance,
                    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                    LPSTR lpszArgument,
                    int nFunsterStil)

{
    HWND hwnd;               
    MSG messages;            
    WNDCLASSEX wincl;        

    
    wincl.hInstance = hThisInstance;
    wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;
    wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;     
    wincl.style = CS_DBLCLKS;                 
    wincl.cbSize = sizeof (WNDCLASSEX);

   
    wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL;                
    wincl.cbClsExtra = 0;                     
    wincl.cbWndExtra = 0;                     
   
    wincl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) COLOR_BACKGROUND;

 
    if (!RegisterClassEx (&wincl))
        return 0;

   
    hwnd = CreateWindowEx (
           0,                 
           szClassName,       
           "Windows App",      
           WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 
           CW_USEDEFAULT,       
           CW_USEDEFAULT,     
           544,               
           375,               
           HWND_DESKTOP,       
           NULL,              
           hThisInstance,       
           NULL         
           );

    
    ShowWindow (hwnd, nFunsterStil);

  
    while (GetMessage (&messages, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
    
        TranslateMessage(&messages);
      
        DispatchMessage(&messages);
    }

  
    return messages.wParam;
}




LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (message)                 
        {
                                     case WM_DESTROY:
            PostQuitMessage (0);       
            break;
        default:                     
            return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }

    return 0;
}

So what i tried was adding another source file and compiling it but nothing happens.

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
     char a = 156;
     unsigned int b = int (a);
     std::cout << a;
     std::cout << b;
     std::cin.get();
     return 0;
 }

Where do i implement it ?

[Ancient Dragon]

cout does nothing in windows programs because they do not have a console window, nor do they have a main() function.

Here are some hints how to draw text on windows canvas.