Re: API's

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"Pop`" <nodoby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'s wild thoughts were
released on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:24:47 GMT bearing the
following fruit:

Hi,

I've begun to dig into APIs just a tad and wanted to see if I'm on the right
track.

Do you think the below descrip is the 'right track' to get into API's, along
of course with examples & samples etc. from around the 'net (love all of
your web sites; nice to have reliable resources!) for supporting the effort?

Or should I be taking a different tact?

Here's what I've done so far (and it's embryonic, I know):

To begin with, I downloaded code from Randy Birch and Matt Hart, which
I'm happy to say is sailing along nicely now, thanks to especially Randy's
coding style which seems to "sync" with how I think somehow. Working great!

So, great as the "stuff" worked, I now had a buncha "stuff" I totally didn't
understand past the black box barrier. They're obviously pretty powerful
"stuff" too<g>.

Installed the API Viewer Add-In. Played with it a bit, didn't get a whole
lot of satisfaction out of it other than I now see where lots of the API's I
come across are able to get their declarations straight. After a little
more unsatisfying Googling it finally sunk in that maybe I should take a
look inside the *.txt file, e.g. win32api.txt, and WOW, there's LOTS of good
information, including the Shell File Operations I am currently using among
other things.

Am I headed in at least the right general direction to be able to find/use
API's? Or do I need to maybe regroup and go a different route? Looks like
a lot of trial & error, but I have a feeling that's what it's going to take
until experience begins to take over.

Thanks as always for sharing,


You could do worse than get yourself a copy of Dan
Appleman's Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API
--
Jan Hyde

https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Jan.Hyde
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