how to make a computer program using notepad

Link against nothing but kernel32, user32, gdi32, advapi32 (if you must).

It seems quite odd since it needs to load a font, then the textures of the text, that alone in a simple SDL2 program uses atleast 5mb ram for the texture of such a size of the text I have in notepad, let alone the 30mb or so ram it uses and frees for loading the font.Īm I missing some special way of making applications in windows, and linux and mac for that matter where their text editors use almost the same as notepad too. How is this even possible if the most baseline library that uses windows API to make a window uses at least 20mb? What can you do to make a program such as notepad the way it is made (ie, uses like less than 1mb ram). Same with Cmd in a sense, it uses roughly 0.4mb.

Contrary to this, and same with cmd, notepad in task manager uses litterally 0.1-0.2mb ram with the actual program itself running? I've been playing around with GLFW, OpenGL, SDL2 and whatnot for making GUI's and games, but no matter what I do, the actual application itself uses roughly 20mb ram with nothing in the display, just a blank program.

How to make a computer program using notepad