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 1I1d98-00022T-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:01:31 -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 l5M70VkS015454 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:00:31 -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 l5M711Vw028820 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:01:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <002401c7b49b$15ee2e50$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Littlefield, tyler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20070622055540.GA14887@lnx3.holmesgrown.com><000b01c7b493$3224c050$6c01a8c0@tdsportable> <20070622062245.GB32293@localhost.localdomain> Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:51 -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: 2007.6.21.234332 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 07:01:31 -0000 winprog.net has a good tutorial. It dives in fast, and assumes knowledge of c/c++, which I would recommend someone reading lots of before they take a dive for windows API. After that, extensive searching on msdn, is what helps lots. You can get a list of data types, and while you don't have to remember them, after coding a bit, you will get to know the most widely used. HTH, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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? > > Greg > > > 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. >> > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGe2q17s9z/XlyUyARAuSaAKCb80Dryp7dMRIyNpx/Jhv8SVzrdQCbBMC7 > WpmtV/IePjBvWwslOKVeQis= > =4/G0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup