Re: A few newbie questions

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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

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