win32 api tutorial

[stephenj]

this is probably a dumb question but can anyone point me to a tutorial that will help me understand how to use the windows api in FB, I can't seem to find one anywhere

cheers

Stephen

[maddogg6]

the FB/examples/Windows folder where you installed FBC should show some stuff.

Anything more specific can be searched for with the forum search.

[Antoni]

IIRC in the first issues of QBExpress Nekrophidius (a.k.a Adosorken) ran a short tutorial about it.

There are great tutorials for other languages as Reliable Software's or The Forger's (C) and Iczelion's (Assembler). You can Google for them.

The best thing around (for C) is the Win Help file that came with Charles Petzold's book about the Win API. Do a search for petzold.zip...or go buy the book if you prefer it.

[notthecheatr]

Aside from the ones already mentioned, the tutorials section in the wiki contains at least one basic tutorial. After you learn the basics though, you'll need to look elsewhere to get to the really deep stuff. http://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php ... ssageIntro is the link to the tutorial.

A knowledge at least of basic C syntax will help you there, since there's so many C tutorials for the Win32 API out there. Don't bother with C++ tutorials though, they won't really help much with that.

[stephenj]

okay, thanks everybody, I've got some reading to do

cheers

S

[MystikShadows]

I also wrote a 2 part tutorial on the Windows API in FB for PCOPY! you can read them here:

First part:
http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pc ... 10/#winapi

Second Part:
http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pc ... tml#winapi

Hope it helps.

[notthecheatr]

One thing I'll point out...

this is probably a dumb question

There are no dumb questions :D Keep learning!