Are there any example of how to Activate a Window in unpackaged app?

[shelllet]

Are there any example of how to Activate a Window in unpackaged app?

Is it so?

MddBootstrapInitialize(...)

auto window = make<MainWindow>();
window Activate();

// where is message loop ?

MddBootstrapShutdown();

[andrewleader]

Hi @shelllet, we'll need some more info in order to help you.

Are you trying to build a WinUI 3 unpackaged app? If so, the docs walk through this and the File->New template includes the code for activating the window.

If you're trying to do something else, we'll need to know exactly what you're trying to do. In 1.0, mixing WinUI 3 and other UI stacks is not officially supported, so you can't create and activate a WinUI 3 window from another type of app.

[andrewleader]

Ah, that's some older documentation before we had full WinUI 3 unpackaged support. Here's the doc you should be using: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/winui3/create-your-first-winui3-app?tabs=csharp%2Ccpp-unpackaged#instructions-for-winui-3-unpackaged-desktop-apps

Let me know if you have any further questions!

[shelllet]

This may be different from what I thought。create normal win32 desktop app by visual studio win32 desktop template and change it to winui3 window seems not possible.

[andrewleader]

You could probably do that, but it would involve a lot of work. Is starting with a new WinUI 3 C++ app using the WinUI 3 C++ template not possible? If so, why?

[shelllet]

thks your explaination, i just want to ask if it is possible, or if there are examples, which may be useful in some cases, to be honest, I don’t really do that. and i don't need to do that now

[andrewleader]

We don't have any examples of starting with a win32 desktop app and changing it to use WinUI 3, we recommend starting with a WinUI 3 project template as that sets up everything correctly from the start. It's probably possible, but unless there's a specific business need, it's easier to just start with the WinUI 3 project template.