So I've started on a simple top down game engine and am now starting work on a level editor. I'm trying to find some way to get user input so I can type out which files to load and save. I've learned a lot about SDL and c++, but still am not sure exactly how to accomplish this.

My question to you: Is it possible to use Win32 windows made with the .net framework and SDL in one application? So that I can open up win32 popup windows that say "Which file would you like to open", or use other things in the windows toolkit. It would be much easier then using the SDL's true type font library and programming all the buttons and things manually. I've heard you could directly use SDL for this sort of thing(?).

Yes, it's possible to use standard Windows API functions and classes in a program that uses SDL. If, for example, you wanted to call GetOpenFileName(), you would just include the windows.h header and call the function.

thanks! Had no idea that function existed.