From: hgfernan@usp.br (Hilton Fernandes) Subject: Re: [Q]: Newbie question about WinAPI... 20 Feb 1998 20:38:45 -0800 Message-ID: <9802210136.AA24580.cygnus.gnu-win32@spider.uspnet.usp.br> References: <34EC6757.D33E09E3@enea.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "Bj rn Svartengren" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Cc: "Fernandes, Hilton" On 19 Feb 98 at 18:09, Björn Svartengren wrote: > Hello all! > > Let me just say this straight out... I'm a total newbie to C++ and > WinAPI... > Therefor I whould like to use normal C which I know how to handle :) > Is there anyway of creating windows and using the WinAPI with C? > If so does anyone have a simple example of how to create a window? > > In other cases please point me to a good newbie guide for WinAPI > programing :) > Hello Bjorn, you can try the excellent Programming Windows 95, by Charles Petzold & Paul Yao. Some say it is not the best between all Win32 API books, but i simply haven't read ahout another book so broad in coverage and at the same time so deep. A must read. BTW, it uses C only, and that may be of help for those of us who don't want to add the learning of C++ to the learning of the Win32 API. Both can be complex and we have to take a breath sometimes. :-) > Btw, I just installed Mingw32 and all the extras and tried some basic > programs and it seems to work fine.. > It's good to see a public domain software work right. Possibly as good as a commercial one or even better. > Cheers, > Björn Svartengren Regards, ++Hilton ------------------- Hilton Fernandes email: hgfernan@usp.br www: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~hilton.html (inactive) M. Sc. Student of Parallel Distributed Applications at Escola Politecnica (Polytechnic School) University of S. Paulo - Brazil - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".