Win32 API and Google [HELP a noob out.]

WetCode (117)
Hey so I have been pondering this for a while and this is my conclusion.
I want to make a program that takes my Input and dose a search on Google and returns.
The individual links that contains my Search Words and will then come up as relevant results.

As I found out this is a bit to mutch for me to take on right now so I narrowed it down to.
Search on Google and outputs the links in the program for now.
After some days of trail end error I have made my GUI with the Win32 API and starting to understand it FINALLY.

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#include <windows.h>

/*  Declare Windows procedure  */
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

/*  Make the class name into a global variable  */
char szClassName[ ] = "GoogleSearch";

#define ID_BTN1 1
#define ID_TXTBOX 2
#define ID_TXTBOXRESULTS 3

static HWND hwndURLBOX;
static HWND hwndRESULTBOX;

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hThisInstance,
                     HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                     LPSTR lpszArgument,
                     int nCmdShow)
{
    HWND hwnd;               /* This is the handle for our window */
    MSG messages;            /* Here messages to the application are saved */
    WNDCLASSEX wincl;        /* Data structure for the windowclass */

    /* The Window structure */
    wincl.hInstance = hThisInstance;
    wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;
    wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;      /* This function is called by windows */
    wincl.style = CS_DBLCLKS;                 /* Catch double-clicks */
    wincl.cbSize = sizeof (WNDCLASSEX);

    /* Use default icon and mouse-pointer */
    wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
    wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW);
    wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL;                 /* No menu */
    wincl.cbClsExtra = 0;                      /* No extra bytes after the window class */
    wincl.cbWndExtra = 0;                      /* structure or the window instance */
    /* Use Windows's default colour as the background of the window */
    wincl.hbrBackground = GetSysColorBrush(COLOR_3DSHADOW);

    /* Register the window class, and if it fails quit the program */
    if (!RegisterClassEx (&wincl))
        return 0;

    /* The class is registered, let's create the program*/
    hwnd = CreateWindowEx (
           0,                   /* Extended possibilites for variation */
           szClassName,         /* Classname */
           "Search Google",       /* Title Text */
           WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW, /* default window */
           CW_USEDEFAULT,       /* Windows decides the position */
           CW_USEDEFAULT,       /* where the window ends up on the screen */
           550,                 /* The programs width */
           350,                 /* and height in pixels */
           HWND_DESKTOP,        /* The window is a child-window to desktop */
           NULL,                /* No menu */
           hThisInstance,       /* Program Instance handler */
           NULL                 /* No Window Creation data */
           );

    /* Make the window visible on the screen */
    ShowWindow (hwnd, nCmdShow);

    /* Run the message loop. It will run until GetMessage() returns 0 */
    while (GetMessage (&messages, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
        /* Translate virtual-key messages into character messages */
        TranslateMessage(&messages);
        /* Send message to WindowProcedure */
        DispatchMessage(&messages);
    }

    /* The program return-value is 0 - The value that PostQuitMessage() gave */
    return messages.wParam;
}


/*  This function is called by the Windows function DispatchMessage()  */

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (message)                  /* handle the messages */
    {
        case WM_CREATE:
        {
        hwndURLBOX = CreateWindow(TEXT("EDIT"), TEXT("http://"),
                WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD | ES_AUTOHSCROLL,
                10, 10, 400, 25,
                hwnd, (HMENU) ID_TXTBOX, NULL, NULL
            );

            CreateWindow(TEXT("button"), TEXT("Click Me"),
                WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD | MB_OK,
                10, 40, 80, 25,
                hwnd, (HMENU) ID_BTN1, NULL, NULL
                );

        hwndRESULTBOX = CreateWindow(TEXT("STATIC"), TEXT(""),
                WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD,
                10, 80, 500, 200,
                hwnd, (HMENU) ID_TXTBOXRESULTS, NULL, NULL
            );

                break;
        }
        case WM_COMMAND:
        {
            if (LOWORD(wParam) == ID_BTN1){

                int nLenght = GetWindowTextLength(hwndURLBOX) +1;
                static char urlstr[500] = "";

                GetWindowText(hwndURLBOX, urlstr, nLenght);
                SetWindowText(hwndRESULTBOX, urlstr);
            }

            break;
        }

        case WM_DESTROY:
            PostQuitMessage (0);       /* send a WM_QUIT to the message queue */
            break;
        default:                      /* for messages that we don't deal with */
            return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }

    return 0;
}


So what now I have been looking at WinINet.h but seems its not supported on Windows 7.
Allot of Google searches turned up ALLOT but i think [url=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1397313/programatically-get-google-search-results]this[/url] is what I need to do next but I have no clue how. Can anyone shed some light on this for me becuse not a clue on how to use Google Spesifecly in C++?

Also dont know but can this be done using WinHTTP API?

Any help is greatly aprichiated..
Thanks
Last edited on
modoran (2077)
WinINET is supported in windows 7, who told you this ?
Look here for what header and libs is required to use wininet API. Download and install latest SDK if you have not done so already.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385483(v=vs.85).aspx
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WetCode (117)
Thanks for your reply so with some hard work and dedication i can do what i want with.
Win32 API and WinINet API ?,can you stear me in the right direction of what Functions i whode need?
To do some basic stuff with it?, I will have a look fore some tutorials.
Thanks again
freddie1 (1838)
Don't know if this will help but several weeks ago I posted an example of embedding the WebBrowser ActiveX Control (Microsoft Internet Controls 1.1 in ieframe.dll) in a Win32 Sdk window...

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/58312/

I kind of hijacked the thread a bit there - its about the 10th post down. To go to www.google.com you would just put that string in a BSTR and execute the IWebBrowser:Navigate method...

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BSTR strUrl;

strUrl=SysAllocString(L"www.google.com");
if(pWebBrowser)
   pWebBrowser->Navigate(strUrl,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL);


I had just figgured all that out 'on a lark' kind of, as I usually don't deal much with internet coding. The whole program compiled to about 10K. I thought that was neat. The COM part is hard to understand though.

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