🚀 go-pugleaf

I just got a copy of Turbo Pascal for Windows second hand, because I wanted
to do some windows programming. I used to program in pascal before I moved
to C. There are a lot of things that I am not very impressed about, but the
most annoying is that there is almost no documented support of using the
actual windows routines for creating windows. They seem to want to force you
into their form of object oriented programming. This wouldn't be a problem
except they have forgotten a few variables that I desperately need for what
I am doing in windows. My problem is this. Every time I run the create
windows program it cashes with a segmentation fault. The kernel catches it,
but it doesn't help my program to work. I think that I am somehow defining
some variables wrong that are crashing the machine (brilliant eh :-)

When creating a window Class. I am having difficulty. I am unsure on what to
use for an hInstance, hIcon, and hCursor value. I have basically made up
numbers with varying results for all of them. I also do not know what to do
with the variable lpszMenuName. These variables are all from the record used
in RegisterClass call, which should be standard from all forms of windows
libraries.

When creating the window I have a record, which I am pretty sure returns
values, but I have set them with values anyways since there is no
documentation to explain it. (read sample code needed desperately).
lpCreateParams = ''. No idea what they want there. hInstance = 0. hMenu = 0.
Probably should create a menu, and patch that in here. hwndParent = 0. I
think this creates the first window, but I am not sure. deExStyle = 0. I
can't find the defines for this. I used the standard style above.

Basically I can't create a window using the standard routines, and I am
frustrated. I have found a lot of neat little toys that would come in handy,
and I am pretty sure that I understand how they work, but on most of these
variables I have little idea where to start, or which one is causing the
program to crash uncerimoniously. I can create a window with the object
oriented fation, but there are many things I can't do if I go through that
method.

Please mail me some example code if you have written any non-object oriented
code in C, or Pascal. I assume that the function calls would be similar for
any type of windows programming. thanx in advance. I will post some working
code to the net if anyone is interested, or I will mail to all interested
parties the basic code in Turbo Pascal for windows to open, and manipulate a
window.