[stupid question]
I have Charles Petzold's guide to the windows 98 api, this doesn't mean that I can't use it with xp right?
[/stupid question]
[stupid question]
I have Charles Petzold's guide to the windows 98 api, this doesn't mean that I can't use it with xp right?
[/stupid question]
Most of the functions will still work because of backwards-compatibility , but I'm sure there are some XP specific ones at your disposale now.
"...the results are undefined, and we all know what "undefined" means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces." --Scott Meyers
yes, the only difference is that there are new functions available in the API for XP, you can write a program to use them but if you try to run it on a Win32 platform that doesnt support that function it will error, there is a way around this so you can decide which function to call but it might be a little over your head right now.
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Due not that in each release of windows that some functions becomre obsolete and replaced but are still there and available for backwards compatability.
Last edited by xds4lx; 09-28-2002 at 06:31 PM.
"only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and im not sure about the former." - albert einstein
If I were you I would install 98 instead of XP. I used this book
as a reference to program my latest application and after I finished I was surprised that it didn't work well on XP. Probably stock objects or at least DEFAULT_GUI_FONT is managed in a different way in XP than it is in 98.