From: "Littlefield, tyler" <compgeek13@gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:04:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000b01c7b493$3224c050$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070622055540.GA14887@lnx3.holmesgrown.com>
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@holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup@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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