api??

falsepride · 01-11-2005, 11:19 AM

what is a good book recemondation to learn api c++ for XP?

ender · 01-16-2005, 09:31 AM

As far as I am aware, there is no C++ API available for XP. At the lowest point, there is the win32 apis, which have been around since Windows 95. These have kept pretty constant over the years (for backwards compatablity) and are generally the lowest level you can get. There have been many APIs that hide the nasties of win32 api programming, but generally call them at some point in time. MFC was such an abstraction, which is object oriented. The latest, although not really a pure layer, is .NET. I guess you'll need to either stick with the basics, or pick one of the following to go with. After you do that, you can then make a decision for book choices.

Valmont · 01-16-2005, 10:14 AM

You could try Qt, or wxWidgets. These are more or less os-independant gui api's.

ender · 01-16-2005, 10:17 AM

Heh. I was giong to offer those, but since it really didn't go with the original topic, I figured it wasn't appropriate. However, now that you mentioned it I use wxWidgets and like it, although I am rarely in windows.

fp_unit · 01-26-2005, 01:02 PM

I recommend MFC for C++ programmers over Win32. Its built around more of an OO framework, just don't use any of the visual editing tools if you want to understand what the heck is going on in your code.

fp_unit · 01-26-2005, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by falsepride

what is a good book recemondation to learn api c++ for XP?

Here's two goodies, one for Win32 (a bible) and another for MFC (to get started, its really small). If you don't mind writing C code over C++ for a while I would say get the Win32 book but if your really adament on C++ get the MFC:

MFC
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASI...440800-6311558

Win32
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASI...440800-6311558

Enjoy!