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Re: Can I get my progs to run on WIN95

• Posted by ddparnell at bigpond.com Feb 20, 2001
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Hi Tony,

> I use WIN98 and program with WIN32LIB V55. My progs run fine at home, A
> customer would like to run my prog but runs WIN95 with IE5 and gets an
> error code 464 couldn't link to GetWindowInfo.
> How can I get around this as WIN95 users are a plenty.

The Win32lib library does not try to emulate newer functionality when you
are running an old version of the operating system. Simply put, if there is
a Windows API routine that is not supported under Win95 then you have to
emulate it yourself. Likewise, we don't try to emulate WinNT/2000 only
routines on Win95/98/ME platforms.

Sorry, but we can't really be expected to provide backwards compatibility
for Win95.

If people choose (or are forced) to remain with (very!) old versions of
Windows, they shouldn't really complain about not having access to newer API
routines, IMNSHO.

I've rejigged the library (v0.55+) so that it now only links to a routine if
it is actually called. This means that you can use the library with Win95,
but some API calls and some controls just won't work.

In your particular case, which windows info are you after? Maybe there's a
Win95 method to obtain the same.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
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