How can I implement a payment system from a dedicated windows app?

[jratcliff63367]

I am developing a windows application, which runs in full 3d graphics and written in C++, that I want to release as sort of 'shareware'.  In other words I want users to be able to pay me a modest bitcoin fee and they will *immediately* be able to unlock the full features of the application. I do *not* want to have to launch a web-browser or anything like that.  I don't care about any form of payment other than bitcoin. I just want to be able to display a QR code/key and get an 'ack' that says 'payment received'.

I see that blockchain offers a great free way to handle payments like this, pretty much just the way I want, but it's all implemented assuming your are running a web-based application in a browser.

I'm not really much of a web-developer, my background is developing 3d graphics applications for the game industry.

What I would ideally like is a windows 32/64 bit DLL which I could demand load in my app.

I would like to be able to send to this DLL a 'purchase request', which essentially amounts to "send this much money to this address".

The DLL would then bring up a modal dialog box with a QR code for the end user to scan as well as the address if they need/want to copy/paste it.  The dialog box would stay up until the payment was received or the user hit cancel.  The DLL would then just return a success/fail to me.

I suppose the first question is, does such a thing already exist?  And, second, if it doesn't how hard would it be for someone to write?  And, third, if you answered 'that would be easy', can I please pay you to write it for me?  This is a very important feature I want to have in my product but I'm very much not interested in writing the code to do it myself.

Thanks,

John

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[jratcliff63367]

Here's a follow up question.

Apparently there is some API called 'websockets' (I apologize, I know *nothing* about web based programming) which is some kind of standardized way to do communications over the internet and might talk to things like the blockchain.info service.

So, would the strategy I need be to integrate a lightweight C++ implementation of a websocket client, something like:

https://github.com/dhbaird/easywsclient

And then just put my various payment requests to the blockchain.info site?

Sorry, I apologize for my ignorance but this really just isn't my area of expertise.  Ask me about how to program game engines and I can help you out there....

Thanks,

John