Creating a splash screen in Visual Studio

Question

Hello, I am a game and software developer. I am planning on making a game in C++ possibly with Java in it too. I was working on making a game launcher and I opened Photoshop to make a logo. I saw the splash screen-loading screen thing when I opened it up(For context: When you open Photoshop or other Adobe apps the window that pops up but is not recognized as a window) I wanted to try and make something like this that would work on windows and mac. If you have any suggestions, please help

Answer 1

Hi, @LP

For Windows project, you could set WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW style to achieve window that pops up but is not recognized as a window.

Currently Q&A C++ does not support development for mac, and Visual Studio for mac does not have a C++ component. If you need mac solutions, please go to mac development related forums such as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/macos.

#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    
    WNDCLASSEX wc = { sizeof(WNDCLASSEX), CS_CLASSDC, WndProc, 0L, 0L, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, _T("MyWindowClass"), NULL };
    RegisterClassEx(&wc);
  
    HWND hwnd = CreateWindow(wc.lpszClassName, _T("My Window"), WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, 100, 100, 640, 480, NULL, NULL, wc.hInstance, NULL);

   
    SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) | WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW);
    ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOW);

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

    return 0;
}

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

Best regards,

Minxin Yu

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