From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nsfone.fone.net ([206.168.68.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I1cGV-0001BP-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:05:04 -0400 Received: from mail2.fone.net (mail2.fone.net [206.168.68.165]) by nsfone.fone.net (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l5M643wW007367 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:04:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from tdsportable (ip-206-123-194-16.static.fasttrackcomm.net [206.123.194.16]) by mail2.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id l5M64UoT027979 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:04:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <000b01c7b493$3224c050$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Littlefield, tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070621193101.GA3948@cm.nu><000701c7b477$f91e5110$ab00a8c0@tenstac> <20070622055540.GA14887@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:04:10 -0700 Organization: TDS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.21.224633 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Littlefield, tyler" , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:05:04 -0000 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" To: 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@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup