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DarkTwilkitri · 01-09-2004, 01:52 AM

By the Platform SDK I mean, for example to create a window first you fill in a window class structure, then RegisterClass it, then CreateWindow it, etc... which are all the functions in what the help calls the Platform SDK, as differentiated from MFC, where you derive classes from the base classes and then get them working through means which aren't apparent to me.

Thanks for your concern, but I already know that I have to learn the language fairly well before I should start doing windowed stuff

. I was just wondering... I was actually advised by someone else that I shouldn't learn either of them, and I should wait until Longhorn comes out because it'll probably have a different API :/.

I know generic programming, in that I know how control structures et al work, from Java and Casio9850GB+, so mostly I need to learn the things which C/C++ have which they don't, such as pointers et al.

Heh... I'm not sure how you can call that long-winded.

01-09-2004, 01:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
DarkTwilkitri Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 21	By the Platform SDK I mean, for example to create a window first you fill in a window class structure, then RegisterClass it, then CreateWindow it, etc... which are all the functions in what the help calls the Platform SDK, as differentiated from MFC, where you derive classes from the base classes and then get them working through means which aren't apparent to me. Thanks for your concern, but I already know that I have to learn the language fairly well before I should start doing windowed stuff . I was just wondering... I was actually advised by someone else that I shouldn't learn either of them, and I should wait until Longhorn comes out because it'll probably have a different API :/. I know generic programming, in that I know how control structures et al work, from Java and Casio9850GB+, so mostly I need to learn the things which C/C++ have which they don't, such as pointers et al. Heh... I'm not sure how you can call that long-winded.