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Reply-To: rvd@clunker.UUCP (Robert Del Favero)

James Chuang writes:
>> [ about his problems getting a windows hook routine to work]
>>Is there a good book with all this in it?  I know Petzold`s doesn't address
>>this....

There's a good new book just hitting the bookstores now:

	Windows 3: A Developer's Guide
	Jeffrey M. Richter
	M&T Books
	ISBN 1-55851-164-4
	$39.95, includes 3 360K disks of example programs

Richter devotes an entire chapter to a discussion of windows hooks, including
some sample code.  Other topics include:
	window subclassing and superclassing
	dialog box techniques
	dynamic memory management
	dynamic link libraries
	custom child controls
	printer setup
	commercial application installation
	Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
	(and the examples are littered with useful tidbits)

I've read and worked my way through the first three quarters of the book,
and I can't recommend it highly enough for those of us who have made it past
the level of Petzold's book.  I still recommend Petzold first, but Richter
makes an excellent second book on Windows programming.  (You need at least 
Volume I of the SDK reference, in any case.)

	Programming Windows, 2e
	Charles Petzold
	Microsoft Press
	ISBN 1-55615-264-7
	$29.95

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