Window message function is a killer :(

[brainydexter]

You might be wondering, whats with the title! Well, its been two days and this bug is killing me

I am trying to learn openGL and am trying to learn and use native windows code rather than GLUT handling everything for me. Thus, I thought i'll write a general window wrapper around the openGL stuff, without really mixing the two functionalities.

Thus, I made two modules:
-myWin
-Application

For beginning, I needed a window in which I could render my openGL stuff. Thus, I tried learning setting up my window in the myWin class. I followed some tutorials online, and have been able to get a basic framework done. "But", there are some bugs which I still dont understand in their entirety and that is what is messing me up.

Following are the errors to which I could not even understand the solutions posted online (found em via searching on the web):
(If you open the attached files, it would really become very clear to you. Anyways, here are my problems
1.

LRESULT myWin::WndMsgProc (HWND hWnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM  wParam, LPARAM  lParam)

I have this as a function member definition in my header file and defined in my code .cpp file. When I try to assign this method to the window :

	wc.lpfnWndProc = (WNDPROC)WndMsgProc;

I get an error:

error C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from 'overloaded-function' to 'WNDPROC'
None of the functions with this name in scope match the target type

I dont understand since the method signature is exactly the same as it expects. After a lot of gOOgling, I found that making WndMsgProc static would solve my problem and the reason for that has got something to do with function pointers wrt classes. I don't understand how that works, but i'd like to know.. Also, if I make it static, I end up making all my other members static since it calls and accesses other members. I am really interested in finding another way of doing this. I think making things static is a bad thing to do and it breaches the OOPs idea. Its like making everything global.. Anyways, I would really appreciate if someone could tell me the right way to do things..

2. There are more issues, like toggling between unicode and multiset character base, but i want to solve one problem at a time here.

[yaustar]

You can't assign non-static class functions to function pointers due to way classes work (i.e all class non-static functions have a this pointer variable).

The Win32 API is a C library, not a C++ one which can make it very hard to use.

[brainydexter]

So, is the best way to go about things..

(PS: Please see the attached files)

[yaustar]

Making all the member variables static? Differently not.

[brainydexter]

Soo..then how should i do it??? Some leads ??

[yaustar]

Google: lpfnWndProc
Result: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art...rticle1810.asp