Tutorial for first dialog app, C++

Question

Please help me find a tutorial that walks me through the process of creating a desktop app and ends up with a dialog containing, for example, some labels, text boxes, checkboxes, and buttons.
The project will eventually use OpenGL to draw some charts. I don’t know if it should use MFC, ATL, or something else.
This is for Windows 10 and visual Studio 2017 Professional, C++
Yes, I have googled and tried several MSDN walkthroughs but not discovered what is needed.
Thank you for your time

Note, apologies for the tags. they are required, but will accept nothing I typed in. Tried "di" for dialog and found nothing appropriate. Selected something from the options and went with that.

Example problem: A video tutorial begins with: New -> Project -> MFC -> MFC Application
This install of VS 2017 Professional has: New -> Project -> MFC/ATL -> ATL Project
MCS/ATL is the only MFC option at the Project level, and ATL Project is the only sub-option provided. Have I configured something wrong with VS 2017? How important is this?

Answer 1

I did a quick search and found OpenGL - Win32 apps. Did you see that? The following are other samples and tutorials.

• Tutorial 1 : Opening a window
• How to Setup and Get Started with OpenGL in C++
• LearnOpenGL - Creating a window
• OpenGL Basics - Win32 Tutorial Sample Code
• Getting Started With OpenGL In Visual C++

And probably Visual Studio installs everything we need for OpenGL, we only need to add opengl32.lib as a linker input library for the project. Do you know how to do that in VS? So if you create an empty C++ desktop application and put something like minimal.c into it and add opengl32.lib as a linker input library then it can work just that easily. Except to close the samples from that site (they are very old) I need to click the "x" icon multiple times.

Answer 2

Hi

According to your description, If you want to try to create a Win32 project, I suggest you could refer to the Docs:
How to: Create a Dialog Box (C++)
Dialog Box Controls (C++)
How To: Add, Edit, or Delete Controls (C++)

If you want to create an MFC project, I suggest you could refer to the Docs:
Working with Dialog Boxes in MFC
Making and Using Controls

This install of VS 2017 Professional has: New -> Project -> MFC/ATL -> ATL Project

I suggest you should check whether you have installed the MFC SDK. Open the VS Installer window, you could click on "Individual Components", then scroll quite a way down to get to the "SDKs, libraries and frameworks" section. In there, you'll find a list of components for ATL and MFC support. You could choose the version you need to install.

Best Regards,

Jeanine Zhang

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