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I have not been able to obtain an answer to this question anywhere (including here) so I’ll ask it again. I can understand that folks don’t want to wade through hundreds of lines of code looking for someone else’s bug, so I’ve worked very hard to produce the very smallest …

I am trying to understand COM memory layout and using C++ classes just confuses me. In general I understand what is going on with the double indirection of function pointers but as so often is the case in programming one must understand the ugly details – not just the generalities. …

Narue's advice is good. That was Petzold's last book on the Window's Api (he now writes about .NET and other technology topics), and he is considered quite the expert on it - especially in graphics. The Windows Api doesn't really change all that much. Another book on the Api that …

Just decided to try the new Code::Blocks IDE on an old ODBC program of mine that I had always compiled as a C program. I decided to redo it as a C++ program and immediately hit a nasty problem that I never ran into in C. It involves a Typedef …

I use two different compilers/development environments, i.e., Microsoft's Visual C++ 6.0 and Dev C++, the latter of which is a free and relatively small download of about 10 MB. For just starting out I'd highly recommend Dev C++ as a development environment. You can compile console or GUI Windows programs …

AncientDragon wrote... [QUOTE] No you are not. MS-DOS died 10 years ago. [/QUOTE] Every year the organization for which I work sells 30 to 45 million dollars worth of timber. This timber is inventoried and tallied using data recorders running my various DOS PowerBASIC, QuickBasic or C programs. So its …

Parsing lines of text like that is pretty mean work if you are just using C string routines such as strtok(). C++ string classes always have string handling/parsing routines similiar to those found in BASIC dialect languages that make this sort of work pretty easy.

Petzold's books are how I learned Windows Api coding, and the material is still timely and applicable, IMHO. I primarily use Win 2000 and XP and everything in Petzold works fine. Do you have the Windows 95 or 98 book? Actually, there have been some updates to the functions. For …

Visual C++ 6 isn't something you're supposed to share. Ten years ago the Enterprise version cost about a thousand bucks. If you really, really need it, then buy it. It'll cost a lot. Otherwise, do as the other posters suggested.