Todays assignment is to get a red block on the screen of a Win32 program.

Let's assume you're using Win32. Let's assume you're using Visual Studio 6. To draw a colored block, do this:

• 1) New...
• 2) Win32 Application; give it a project name ("block") and location on disk
• 3) Select "A typical Hello World application" in the next dialog
• 4) Press OK, go to File View, open up Source Files -> block.cpp
• 5) F3 WM_PAINT ENTER F3

This should take you to this code position:

case WM_PAINT: hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps); // TODO: Add any drawing code here... RECT rt; GetClientRect(hWnd, &rt); DrawText(hdc, szHello, strlen(szHello), &rt, DT_CENTER); EndPaint(hWnd, &ps); break;

6) Remove the two lines that starts with "GetClientRect" and with "DrawText" and instead put in:

rt.left = 10; rt.top = 10; rt.right = 30; rt.bottom = 30; static HBRUSH brRed; if( !brRed ) brRed = CreateSolidBrush( RGB( 200, 0, 0 ) ); FillRect( hdc, &rt, brRed );

7) Press F5, say OK. Watch your red block appear.