On 11 Jun 96 Peter Zicari said to Steve Batson...
 PZ> I've noticed as I pull together my first Windows projects that they're
 PZ> about six times the size of my biggest DOS project.
One step in the learning curve of Windows programming is to convince
yourself that nobody cares about the size of your programs any more.
Everybody has a Gig. disk (or will soon buy one) !  Back in the early days,
when the entire system had to fit on a 360K floppy, I remember sweating
blood to shrink a program down below the disk allocation unit size (1024
bytes).  But those days are gone.  Hardware prices keep falling, and
nowadays the most expensive component of a computer systems is usually the
programmers' time.  So if the cost of saving programmer time is a larger
program, you bite the bullet.
 PZ> where
 PZ> is it written that EVERYTHING has to have menu bar, pop up menus,
 PZ> radiobutton dialogs, edit dialogs and so on?
It is because a significant portion of the population now understands the
Windows idiom.  I used to be a Windows non-believer, but "in response to
public demand", I provided a Windows interface to a suite of DOS programs.
Watching the users almost instinctive reaction to it made a believer out of
me.
Note - if you are still keen to keep program size down at the cost of
programming convenience and some screen ugliness, read Francois Piette's
"Hello World" post dated 07-Jun-96.  Then try using just WINAPI calls.
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