Can any of you spot what I'm missing here? I'm trying to create a win32 window but falling flat on my face, it's kind of embarrassing really
After the call to CreateWindowEx() I'm getting error 1407 which stands for "Cannot find window class".
This leads me to believe that I'm filling in the class structure incorrectly, even though registerClass() doesn't seem to fail.
EDIT: parameters were in the wrong order
bool Window::initialize(HINSTANCE p_instance, UINT p_showCommand)
{
tstring className = _T("solipsistWindow");
//define and register window class
WNDCLASSEX windowClass;
windowClass.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
windowClass.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
windowClass.lpfnWndProc = WindowProc;
windowClass.cbClsExtra = NULL;
windowClass.cbWndExtra = NULL;
windowClass.hInstance = p_instance;
windowClass.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
windowClass.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
windowClass.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_CROSS);
windowClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW + 1); //+1 to differentiate between background and scrollbar
windowClass.lpszClassName = className.c_str();
windowClass.lpszMenuName = NULL;
if(!RegisterClassEx(&windowClass))
{
MessageBox(NULL, _T("failed to register window class"), _T("Fatal error"), MB_OK);
return false;
}
m_windowHandle = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
m_windowTitle.c_str(),
className.c_str(), //window class
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, //window style
CW_USEDEFAULT, //x
CW_USEDEFAULT, //y
m_width,
m_height,
NULL, //parent
NULL, //window
p_instance,
NULL); //lParam
if(m_windowHandle == NULL)
{
DWORD errorCode = GetLastError();
tstringstream errorMessage;
errorMessage << _T("Failed to create window after registering window class. Error code ");
errorMessage << errorCode;
MessageBox(NULL, errorMessage.str().c_str() , _T("Fatal Error"), MB_OK);
return false;
}
ShowWindow(m_windowHandle, p_showCommand);
UpdateWindow(m_windowHandle);
setInitialized(true);
return true;
}
