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- From: Robert.Mahoney@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Robert Mahoney)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Developers - Read this!
- Message-ID: <727765284.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:00:06 -0500
- Lines: 60
-
- SL>So, what I propose is this: an electronic magazine for all levels of
- SL>developers, with topic levels ranging from 'How do I create a window?' to
- 'I
- SL>need help writing a driver for my video card.'
-
- SL>I was thinking about doing monthly releases in straight ascii format,
- SL>distributed to CI$, hobbes, and uuencoded on comp.binaries.os2. It would
-
- Not to discourage you, this was tried in the Fidonet about 1 year ago.
- One issue was created (in .inf form, source and binaries included), and
- no others ever saw the light of day, just a lack of response from the people
- writing the articles.
-
- Actually I think a better thing would be a programmer FAQ. The existing
- one
- is more like a GNU/EMX FAQ. A programmer FAQ that also answers with pointers
- to existing code (like "for more info ftp hook.zip from hobbes").
-
- I know I see alot of repeat questions:
- How do I port my DOS keyboard TSR to OS/2? (Use monitors or hooks)
- Printf is broken!! (no it's not, turn off buffering)
- When I pass a structure to WinCreateWindow, sometimes it doesn't
- work! (Put the size of the structure as the first word)
- WinFontDlg crashes my system! (use a larger stack)
- How do I use type filtering in the open dlg? (it's broken in GA, fixed in
- SP)
- When minimizing, my dialog box is overwriting my icon (Hide the offending
- control).
- How big should my stacksize be? (For a PM program, >16K)
- How do I stop a container from flashing every time I add a record?
- (Disable/Enable
- the container window)
- How do I get the info from WinGetErrorInfo?
- How do I keep a sizeable window from getting smaller than a certain size?
- How do I put a bitmap or icon on a button?
- How do I program the Com port? (DosOpen,DosRead,DosWrite and the IOTCL
- calls)
- How do I create a conditional menu?
- How do I pass user data in WinCreateStdWindow? (Use 2 WinCreateWindow)
- How do I use mini-icons in containers (You don't, it's broken)
- Can I use WinSetPresParms to set the font in a MLE? (No, use MLM_SETFONT)
- Can we use VIO in v2.0? Where are the docs for it? Yes, and check hobbes.
- Can I have a multi-column listbox? (Yes, but use a container in details
- view)
- Can I redirect stdin and stdout in a app I start from my app? (Use
- DosDupHandle)
- Can I distribute the C-Set/2 runtime DLL? (No, you have to create your own)
- How do I open a file that is already in use? (Use OPEN_SHARE_DENYNONE)
- How do I add a menu to a dialog box? (WinLoadMenu and then WM_UPDATEFRAME)
- How do I subclass a control?
- Why should I use _beginthread instead of DosCreateThread? (To use the RTL)
-
- If anyone is interested I have the full answers and sample code for most of
- these
- questions.
-
- Bob
- ___
- X MR/2 1.36 #10 X Windows NT: It can talk the talk but can it walk the walk?
-
-