GWES on Windows Embedded CE
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8/28/2008
Windows CE 5.0 combines the Microsoft Win32® application programming interface (API), user interface (UI), and graphics device interface (GDI) libraries into the Graphics, Windowing, and Events Subsystem (GWES) module. GWES is the interface between the user, your application, and the operating system (OS).
GWES supports all the windows, dialog boxes, controls, menus, and resources that make up the Windows Embedded CE user interface (UI), which enables users to control applications. GWES also provides information to the user in the form of bitmaps, carets, cursors, text, and icons.
Even Windows Embedded CE–based target devices that lack a graphical UI use GWES basic windowing and messaging capabilities and power management functions.