Where to get good documentation

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2 total messages Started by Stephen Montgomery-Smith Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:07

#2881

Author: Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 17:07

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I would like to write an application that is a background process that
places itself on the tray in the taskbar.  Basically I would like a good
source for documentation for things like this.  I program in C (not
C++), and I have done a lot in the unix environment, but nothing in
windows.  I would like to save money, and I am using the free Borland
command line C compiler.

The microsoft web site was touting "Programming Windows, The Definitive
Guide to the Win32 API" by Charles Petzold.  It got somewhat mixed
reviews on the amazon.com web site.

What do you guys think about this book?  Will what it says also work for
the Borland C compiler?  What other books are good?  I don't want a
beginners book on programming.  I want something like the Windows
equivalent of the excellent books that Richard Stevens wrote for Unix.


-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen@math.missouri.edu
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

Re: Where to get good documentation

#2878

Author: Scott McPhillips
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 19:07

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> I would like to write an application that is a background process that
> places itself on the tray in the taskbar.  Basically I would like a good
> source for documentation for things like this.  I program in C (not
> C++), and I have done a lot in the unix environment, but nothing in
> windows.  I would like to save money, and I am using the free Borland
> command line C compiler.
> 
> The microsoft web site was touting "Programming Windows, The Definitive
> Guide to the Win32 API" by Charles Petzold.  It got somewhat mixed
> reviews on the amazon.com web site.
> 
> What do you guys think about this book?  Will what it says also work for
> the Borland C compiler?  What other books are good?  I don't want a
> beginners book on programming.  I want something like the Windows
> equivalent of the excellent books that Richard Stevens wrote for Unix.
> 
> --
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith
> stephen@math.missouri.edu
> http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen

The Charles Petzold book is the most widely-recommended book on
programming Windows in C.  You won't regret getting it.  It is also one
of the very few Windows books that does not assume you are using the
Visual C/C++ compiler and IDE.

--
Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]

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