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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
