How should i go about making windows applications,
examples:

http://www.cockos.com/licecap/
http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/

How should i go about learning how to do this using only c++,
just point me in the right direction.

Thanks

You can find many tutorials on this topic if that's what you are asking:
http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
http://zetcode.com/gui/winapi/

MSDN itself is not bad: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/...ary/windows/desktop/ff657751.aspx

But for serious GUI application I would really recommend using Qt. It's just much nicer API to work with than raw Win32. As a bonus you get cross-platform compatibility.

thanks for the quick reply, I will go through those links. But for some reason i don't want to use qt.

I read through those links unfortunately its not helping much.

http://www.arulerforwindows.com/

All i am asking is should i set some style to the WNDCLASS to make something like this if so where can i check about this
if not what should i do,


http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/
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Another thing is what is this app doing ?

PS: sorry for troubling, i am unable to use msdn or search it to find what i want

What exactly you want to get? "Something like this" doesn't explain much.

You want custom draw window instead of default look? That's done with Layered Windows: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/...ows/desktop/ms632599.aspx#layered
Layered Windows allows to create windows with any shape or color, or image.

Create virtual desktops/workspaces? You probably will simply need to hide and show back windows manually. Builtin API doesn't provide that. Maybe only on Windows 10 now.

Yea that is exactly what i wanted, sorry for being ambiguous.