1. Knowledge of winapi
Hello David,
I took a very quick look at your work LLAMA. I wonder where do you
get the knowledge from of all these libraries and their functions in
it? Are these all written down in books, one can buy in a bookstore?
user32 = open_dll("user32.dll")
gdi32 = open_dll("gdi32.dll")
winmm = open_dll("winmm.dll")
comdlg32 = open_dll("comdlg32.dll")
kernel32 = open_dll("kernel32.dll")
winspool = open_dll("winspool.drv")
Suppose I want to use ODBC in Euphoria, where do I have to start?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel Kollenaar
2. Re: Knowledge of winapi
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:43:54 +0100, Marcel Kollenaar wrote:
>Suppose I want to use ODBC in Euphoria, where do I have to start?
A great place to start is http://msdn.microsoft.com/ but if you go to any
bookstore you should be able to find a nice stack of thick books on the
subject. (MSDN is sufficient for my needs...)
-- Brian
3. Re: Knowledge of winapi
Marcel Kollenaar wrote:
> I wonder where do you get the knowledge from
> of all these libraries and their functions in
> it? Are these all written down in books, one
> can buy in a bookstore?
As a reference text, I use Charles Petzold's "Programming Windows 95",
although there are other excellent API books out there. If you are looking
for a text, make sure it covers talking directly to the Win32 API
(preferably in C), not the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) library.
The primary reference I use is the Win32 help file (at the RDS site under
"WIN32 API Documentation"). Not only does it explain all the functions, but
it also includes small examples. It includes function prototypes, and
clicking the 'Quick Info' button brings up a list of supported platforms and
the header file name.
Finally, you should also grab the "WIN32 C Header Files" (Hendrik Mundt
posted the Cygwin files at the RDS site). It also includes the values of
constants, which are missing from the prior references. You might try
grabbing the "WIN32 API Constant Declarations" instead, although I think the
Cygwin list is more complete.
Hope this helps!
-- David Cuny
4. Re: Knowledge of winapi
David and Brian,
Thank you for your responses, I do have the downloaded win32
helpfile. I'll spend a lot of time studying it and hack around at
the microsoft site and some bookstores.
Thanks,
Marcel
