From: colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters) Subject: RE: Thanks for the help 13 Jun 1997 20:36:43 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC77FD.6ECA1560.cygnus.gnu-win32@gbird0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "'jfmiller'" Original-Cc: "'GNU-Win32'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com jfmiller[SMTP:jfmiler AT polymail DOT cpunix DOT calpoly DOT edu] wrote: >by unamious concent I did indeed chechout and ust the minimulist win32 >page. while the documentation could use a little calirifaction the >package worked great. BTW Colin Peters and Cygnus have made it on to my >list of people to send money to if I ever become rich (don't hold your >breath, it's not likely to happen any time soon) Promises of cash rewards! I knew there was a reason I did this stuff :) Seriously, I'm glad it's useful to you (and I agree with you about the documentation... sigh). >> 3) I'm am new to windows programming. (I'm sure that this fact is >> blatintly clear by now) Are there any books (or even better internet >> sourses) that would explain at least some of the basics? Most of the >> books I have found are writen assuming one has either MSVC or BC. will >> any of these work? > >_Programming_Windows_95_ By Charles Petzold pub. Micro$oft Press. This >book was recomended both here and by some profs here at CalPoly. It's a >great boog and works well with gnu-win32. It looks like you may have already spent the money (and it is a worthwhile investment IMHO), but in case you haven't I would like to recommend the "Programmers Bookshelf for Windows 95" CD ROM from Microsoft Press. It includes both Petzold and "Advanced Windows" which I am constantly referring to whenever I program. It also includes three other books which I don't use so much, but since the cost of the CD was less than the cost of the first two books put together I don't mind. I've slowly been putting together example programs with Mingw32 in C++ and a very basic class library to support them. Basically I hope to replicate most, if not all, of the example programs in Petzold (sometimes with slight differences in functionality). I'll be posting a preliminary version of some of these samples to my web pages some time in the near future. Hopefully some of the first-time Win32 programmers who are using Mingw32 and/or GNU-Win32 will find them informative, or at least entertaining. Anyway, good luck, Colin. -- Colin Peters - colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".