Re: Using DIR () with hidden folders in WIN SEVEN?
- Posted by useless Sep 26, 2011
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Try anything written for win32lib during the first year you took it over, or anything prior to that, when DaveC was giving birth to it.
There was one breaking change which was implemented after a lot of forewarning and with good reasons. Even David Cuny agreed that if he was doing the library again, he would have changed the 'handler' interface. His original interface caused a lot of limitations. I implemented a new interface and even had both interfaces supported in the library for over a year before finally removing the old interface.
I did say it was improved. It was during this time, that long ago, as euman described, that apps contributed needed a version of win32lib that they were written for. It was back then that i was trying to learn some gui stuff, and became discouraged. Your challenge was:
Is it possible that someone can give me explicit examples of older Win32lib apps that have problems with either the latest release of win32lib or with Eu4?
And so i gave a time frame from which i believe every app will not work with the current win32lib. Not picking at you, Eu was still v3 (or even younger), and win32lib was very young. Aside from using win32lib, i may still occasionally fire up an old program that doesn't like "loop" as a variable name. Granted that wasn't the best programming style anyhow.
The way you describe the current Win32lib gave me the impression you were saying that the current library is severely broken and that is what I heartily disagree with. If I misunderstood you, the fault is entirely mine. I just want it known that the current library is working fine and works with Eu3 and with Eu4.
I've heard from various people at various times that win32lib is now vastly improved, stable, and plays well with others, and am not disagreeing with any of that. I still say if a contribution is made, all the include files be included. I just haven't dealt with it in so long, back when it was often undergoing lots of changes, you may remember, back when i suggested to RobC he put a few of you on payroll. But i stopped trying to use it, which is why when euphoric mentioned the dosbox popup code, i immeadiately tried it.
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