I don't have any experience with borland either but if you want to create a gui for something like a notepad on windows, try these links: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ http://www.functionx.com/win32/index.htm http://www.catch22.net/tuts/ http://www.gametutorials.com/ those were the ones I've used to learn. If you're interested in creating games too, you can look into SDL and openGL. http://www.libsdl.org/ btw, is there a rule against bumping threads? this thread's been dead for 3 years.