From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fed1rmmtao105.cox.net ([68.230.241.41]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1I1c7w-0000vM-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:56:12 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070622055541.PUVG6565.fed1rmmtao105.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:55:41 -0400 Received: from lnx2.holmesgrown.com ([70.162.15.186]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id EVvh1X00640rnRy0000000; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:55:41 -0400 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com ([192.168.1.5] ident=mail) by lnx2.holmesgrown.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I1c7S-0004S7-VS for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:55:42 -0700 Received: from steve by lnx3.holmesgrown.com with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I1c7Q-0007Wp-Uy for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:55:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:55:40 -0700 From: Steve Holmes To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [ot] Windows programming Message-ID: <20070622055540.GA14887@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: <20070621193101.GA3948@cm.nu> <000701c7b477$f91e5110$ab00a8c0@tenstac> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c7b477$f91e5110$ab00a8c0@tenstac> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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 05:56:12 -0000 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/