Re: SetSystemColor()

From: Tim Roberts (timr_at_probo.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:08:57 -0700

"Gary Chanson" <gchanson@No.Spam.TheWorld.net> wrote:
>
>"Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote:
>>
>> However, SetSysColors is a user-mode API, and this is a kernel-mode
>> newsgroup. You probably want to find a better group for this.
>
> This is not a kernel-mode news group. It supports kernel and related
>user mode APIs. Questions about device drivers are really the ones which
>are out of place here.

I've read your response three or four times, and I have to admit to a fair
amount of confusion.

Looking just at the newsgroup name, how could
"microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel" possibly NOT be about
kernel-mode programming?

Looking just at the history, it is clear that 90% of the posts in this
group are, in fact, about device drivers and interacting with device
drivers. Are you suggesting that this group should be dedicated to the
user-mode APIs contained in kernel32.dll? Do you have a reference for
that?

Even if it is about kernel32.dll, SetSysColors is in user32.dll. I
continue to maintain that it would have been more appropriate in another
group. m.p.w.programmer.ui, for example. 

-- 
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc

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