[ot] Windows programming

[Travis Siegel]

Actually, I'm very definitely *not* a fan of visual basic.
I use powerbasic instead (http://www.powerbasic.com)
It comes with a rather large subset of the windows api calls already  
converted to powerbasic includes, and I simply study those when I need  
to know what api is needed to do something.
Also, in addition to having one large win32api.inc file, they also  
have broken it into smaller includes such as tcp/ip, comm, playback  
services, graphic manipulation, sapi speech, and more.
It's really an excellent development environment, 100% accessible, and  
programs are considerably smaller than any visual basic program you'll  
ever see.  Not to mention, everything you need for the execution of  
the program is compiled into the exe file, so there's no need to hope  
the folks have the proper dlls on their systems.
And, they're still supporting, upgrading, and creating new versions of  
their tools.
They even still sell powerbasic for dos.
Now, how's that for support.
In fact, pb for dos was just upgraded to version 4.0 (from 3.5) only a  
year or two back.


On Jun 22, 2007, at 1:22 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> How did you go about learning the windows api? Did you use tutorials,
> if so, then which ones? If you used books, did you get them, and
> scanned them yourself, or had someone scan them for you, did you get
> them on tape from rfbd/nls, or did you get them in braille, or
> electronically?
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> Greg
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> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:04:10PM -0700, Littlefield, tyler wrote:
>> 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.
>>
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