Re: field size
- Posted by gwalters at sc.rr.com Jul 26, 2001
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BTW how much is a MS SDK?? I pay $500/yr for Theos... ..george ----- Original Message ----- From: <euman at bellsouth.net> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Re: field size > > > MICROSOFT PLATFORM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT > > MS-PLATFORM SDK for short > > start you search for it here> > > http://www.msdn.microsoft.com > > 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. > > 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. > > Of course, if you do this the hard way first, you wont need win32lib....:) > > 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 often > I > take a peak at Win32lib to see how those guys did it. > > You may find that learning what a few of the Euphoria commands do. > > c_func > c_proc > define_c_func > define_c_proc > call_back > allocate > allocate_string > free > poke > peek > poke4 > peek4s > peek4u > > 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. > > Euman > euman at bellsouth.net > Advocate for Euphoria API > > > > > > > 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? > > > > ..george > > > > > > >