C++ Win32 GDI+ draw lines, rectangles, ellipses, images

How to draw draw lines, rectangles, ellipses, images with GDI+ on a Windows native window (Win32 API)

Source code for this video:

Link for my previous video about creating a Win32 window:

Links for the Visual Studio 2017 and vcpkg installation tutorials (if necessary):

[haroldmcbroom]

As with some of the other commenters, I too have wasted so much time trying to figure out how to draw things on the new screen I wasted weeks trying to figure out how to create. And your video solved most of my problems. THANKYOU! Now I need to figure out how to draw text, because std::cout does not work with "hwnd" windows. I wasn't even using Visual Studios, just Mingw64 with Notepad++ :)

[henrythompson]

Thank you also so much.... I wasted so much time reading the documentation and still couldn't get gdiplus to operate. Now I know, I hadn't set my linker to find the gdiplus lib. Thank you, a new subscriber and keep them coming.

[TheLostBytes]

Thanks, this really helped with my understanding of gdi+!

[danielcreatd]

Thank you so much! I was struggling with making a display for my C++ code and you helped me out a lot.

[hwilee]

Your Latin English pronunciation is SO CUTE. I’ d love it. Please teach me about the usage in the Linux platform. I mean the usage of the MathGL. I can’t even draw a picture by this. I said, I could even not find out a software to run these cpp libraries. Help me.

[devisals]

Can you use this for making custom title bars?

[coulomb]

Thanks! I have one question though, how do I change the pen's thickness?

[MasterMindmars]

Proble solved. To fix the problem is necesary:
- Compile at 64 bits.
- Add a command to the linker: -lgdiplus

[pewterhacker]

Can you show how to set the scaling ratio for DrawImage?

[MasterMindmars]

Dev C++ generates several error messages when I complile all: unidentified command. ..
In Dev there is another library: libgdiplus.a This is at lib folder. Dev recognizes gdiplus.h in the source code, but the compiler g++ don't find the library even If it its at the parameters linier. Where is the problem ?

[mariostelzner]

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF YOU CAN ADD CODE INSIDE THE WINMAIN() FUNCTION TO DRAW LINES, CIRCLES, AND OTHER GRAPHIC OBJECTS TO AVOID DOING IT IN THE WINPROC() FUNCTION.