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Now I'm curious, what exactly were you making where the win32 documentation was insufficient, but the "one weird trick" blog TheOldNewThing was helpful? Did you
by phendrenad2 5y ago
Now I'm curious, what exactly were you making where the win32 documentation was insufficient, but the "one weird trick" blog TheOldNewThing was helpful? Did you buy any books on win32 or check stackoverflow?
I've found win32 to be a bit hard to find documentation on sometimes (the official documentation is complete, but sometimes know which hook or function to use is up for debate, stackoverflow has good answers there), but overall it's a very good API that gets out of the way and lets me just build.
- pdenton 5y agoIt was an autorun program which would offer a list of what's on the CD along with some images whenever one of the items was selected. I've found a good reference here: https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api The message loop (using MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx) was somewhere around 20 LOC, to enable all the things that the application had to do (including correct handling of dialogs). I don't count that as getting out of my way.