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Re: Accessing Win API

• Posted by Euler German <efgerman at myrealbox.com> Apr 15, 2002
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On 15 Apr 2002, at 20:04, David Cuny wrote:

> 
> Euler German wrote:
> 

No. I did not. These are not my words. As a matter of fact, I never 
used Win32Lib before, so I will not share any opinions on it.

-- Euler

> >Anyone who uses Win32lib is stuck in the loop of having code that is
> >poor in performance, size and bug ridden.
> 
> Ouch.
> 
> I can speak to a couple of these issues, but keep in mind that I haven't
> really looked though Win32Lib in a while - there have been quite a few
> changes since I (gratefully) left it with Derek.
> 
> Win32Lib was written for ease of use, and (especially with Judith's IDE)
> I think it's achieved that. The tradeoff, unfortunately, is speed.
> 
> A case in point is the handling of fonts. The old version of Win32Lib
> basically created a new font every time there was a call to a routine
> that used fonts. This was horribly expensive, but it hid the nasty
> details from the user, and (attempted to) prevent resource leaks.
> 
> As for Win32Lib is 'bug ridden', I suspect that's a bit harsh. And keep
> in mind that the author of any software program can't fix bugs they
> don't know about. So one of the best ways to fix Win32Lib is to report
> any known bugs to Derek.
> 
> Sure, you could 'roll your own' version, but in retrospect, I wish that
> someone else had written Win32Lib, so I could have been doing more
> interesting things.
> 
> Just my (probably obsolete) two cents.
> 
> -- David Cuny
>