[ot] Windows programming

[Littlefield, tyler]

The windows API is... weird.
I went from windows API to linux, and it was a nice change.
With windblows, you get to pass the size of everything, and it doesn't know 
how to take arguments by reference, or return something besides 0 or error 
most of the time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming


>I might give mingw a looky some time.  I messed with cygwin a while
> back and I didn't mind the overall environment all that much but I
> hated the installer! I found the pick list to be completely
> inaccessible.  I couldn't track the selection status of any of the
> list items within each package category.  I sure didn't want to
> install every single package so when I had such a hard time picking
> packages, I finally gave up on it.  I also wrote to the developers on
> the support list about the installer and the response was the program
> was so complex and intrenched that it would be nearly impossible to
> change it.  So I am no longer interested in doing anything with
> cygwin.
>
> My only other experience with the windows API was with Visual Basic
> and the internal object browser.  I found quite a bit of information
> in the help system within the browser.  That would probably next to
> impossible to pull that info without the Microsoft development
> environments such as in Visual Studio.  Perhaps the tutorials Greg
> mentions is a big help.
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