Re: A few newbie questions
- Posted by Rich <ra at zantra.dk> Nov 30, 2004
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Greg Haberek wrote: > > > Sounds very good. Where do you find documentation for using the C libraries? > > Here's a link to the Win32 API help file. The Borland link in the > Archive keeps going down, so I put it up on my site. > > <a > href="http://www.merkur.000k2.com/win32.zip">http://www.merkur.000k2.com/win32.zip</a> > > The Include directory with Borland has all the .h files you'll ever > need for Windows C development. Its just a matter of reading it and > determinig the values you need. Also, look in the Archive for "Win32 > API" or such, there's a lot of libraries the wrap the entire Windows > API so you don't have to type everything manually. Great, thanks. > > Borland 5.5 is free. It works great. Its what Rob uses to test > compatibility with Borland. Get it. Cool, I'll go hunting for that one. > > > OK. Will this affect the future development of the language? > > Not really. There will always be people maintaining something. I've > taken over xControls by Don Phillips (v2.0 coming soon!). Someone will > take over Win32Lib when Derek leaves. Heck, I just found out that > Chris Bensler was the original owner of the EUforum, not Robert Craig. OK, just wanted to make sure that this language has some kind of future, before I dig into it. Do you know approximately how many people that are using it? Rich