OpenEuphoria

Re: field size

• Posted by gwalters at sc.rr.com Jul 26, 2001
• 336 views

thanks for the references. I'll look them up. Probably BN will have some of
them.

..george

----- Original Message -----
From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: field size


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> MICROSOFT PLATFORM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT
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> MS-PLATFORM SDK for short
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> start you search for it here>
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> http://www.msdn.microsoft.com
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> Win32lib docs will not tell you what you will need to do most of the stuff
> it is currently capable of. I really suggest going about this the hard way
> learn the SDK first. I never realized the potential until I did this.
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> Experiment with the couple demo's supplied by RDS for Euphoria
> and grab a copy of Jacques Deschenes API wrappers to look at while
> you read thru the SDK. Grab some books on Windows programming
> I suggest Window programming annotative archives as a beginning
> point the authors name is Herbert Schildt the book has code thats
> written for C++ but, there is an example of a couple chapters on the
> user contrib page written by me, Euman.
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> Of course, if you do this the hard way first, you wont need win32lib....:)
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> This info brought to you by someone who, like you, struggled hard at
first.
> As time passes you'll catch on as I have. I still stumble on parts of
> th SDK but thats because either the documentation isnt real clear to me
> or doesnt exist. In these cases I search the Web for examples and every so
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> take a peak at Win32lib to see how those guys did it.
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> You may find that learning what a few of the Euphoria commands do.
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> c_func
> c_proc
> define_c_func
> define_c_proc
> call_back
> allocate
> allocate_string
> free
> poke
> peek
> poke4
> peek4s
> peek4u
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> just a small list but these are the main commands used to interact with
the API.
> This should take you a day or two to read and write some basic samples
> to test them out.
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> Euman
> euman at bellsouth.net
> Advocate for Euphoria API
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> > how in the world would you have found this. The Win32lib.doc shows the
> > sendMessage with several arguments but no detail at all. is their some
other
> > doc what would go into more detail?
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> > ..george
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