Programming directly with the Win32 interface allows you a lot more opportunities for optimization. It also, for all intents and purposes, binds your software entirely to Windows so Linux and Mac hackers can't help you port it to other platforms without tremendous headaches. Linux has a .Net compatibility box which I'm told works pretty good. Otherwise, if you follow good programming practices, porting to the other platforms is still easier than going all the way down to the Win32 level.
Happy Hacking, cdh
I'd like to learn Win32 but so far you seem to be expected to do a lot of hand coding.-- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Pirika" <a_pirika@xxxxxxxxxxx >To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:57 PM Subject: direction to take in creating new programs?Hi all, I'm knew to the list, but take quite an interest in programming, particularlly for windows, using a gui interface. HOwever, I have a couple of questions.1. What happen to the fruit basket demo project? Is it still somewhere on the web? 2. Is it still advised, or advantagious to program in the win32 API? Most docs these days seem to indicate using windos forms, and it appears that in my tests, supernova/hal from dolphin doesn't like this environment. 3. Out of lua, python and ruby, what language provides good access to windosfeatures, such as gui interface, comm automation, etc? Maybe java?Thanks for any help that you can offer, Arthur. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
