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Re: Windows headers.

• Posted by MORONI Maurizio <Maurizio.Moroni at OMNITEL.IT> Apr 06, 1998
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I would appreciate this "titanic" work. I tried last week to start myself,
using the headers provided by lcc-win32, but I felt quite tired after a
while...I am not very confident with win32 programming.

I agree with Daniel for the fact that win32lib takes too much control and
doesn't leave "freedom" to use other win32 features. For example, I am not
able to process WM_SIZE message for re-dimensioning a child control using
win32lib.

Ciao
Maurizio

> ----------
> From:         Daniel Berstein[SMTP:danielberstein at usa.net]
> Reply To:     Daniel Berstein
> Sent:         Monday, April 06, 1998 6:58 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list EUPHORIA
> Subject:      Windows headers.
>
> Hi all,
>
> As I'm trying to seriously move to Win32 programming, I've invested time
> and
> money (Petzold's book... excellent investment) on the task. What makes it
> more difficult is ENOURMOUS #define(ed) constants used on Windows
> programming. So I decided to make an Euphoria include file with all
> this...
> it has been a "titanic" (todays fashion... I liked the movie very much.
> Curious, I saw in Madrid instead of Santiago, was weird to see a movie
> translated.. no subtitles) work. Currently I have "identified" and
> cut/paste
> the #definitions of:
>     windef.h
>     winnt.h
>     ctype.h
>     winbase.h
>     winerror.h
>     wingdi.h
>     winuser.h
>
> Did I miss any other need header?
> As you might expect I don't undestand 99.99% of those declarations. Do we
> need winnt.h, it seems to have tons of machine dependant information
> (Alpha,
> Mips, and other things probably born from Bill's nightmares).
>
> I hope to "euphorize" the structures definitions as soon as I understand
> which ones we need. Please send me "I need this stuff".
>
> When I speak of "needed" things I mean things we are going to use with
> Euphoria... we probably won't do a device driver, memory manager or alike
> utilities with EXW (C/C++ is still useful for certain jobs indeed).
>
> BTW(1) I think win32lib is great, but sometimes you want more control of
> what you are doing.
>
> BTW(2) About portable GUI library... have you seen MGUI? Quite cool, you
> have the same API (Motif like) for X-Windows (Unix and Linux), DOS, Win31
> and Win95/NT.
> More information at:
> http://www.volftp.vol.it/IT/IT/ITALIANI/MORELLO/index_e.htm
>
>
> Regards,
>     Daniel Berstein.
>