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Friday, 11 June 2010

Sprezzatura Windows API Library

The Windows API provides a rich set of features for your application to utilise, but it can be a daunting task unless you’ve spent many hours programming in C/C++. Although the Windows API is well-documented on-line these days it can be a arduous task trying to map OI to Windows data types when prototyping functions and defining structures, or even searching C/C++ header files for constant definitions.

Here at Sprezz Towers we've done a lot of Windows API programming over the years and we've managed to amass quite a collection of DLL function definitions, structures and constants, and you can find them all in an RDK at the link below.

We've used some naming conventions with these so hopefully they don't collide with your own definitions:

DLL prototype records are prefixed "DLL_WINAPI_"
DLL functions are prefixed "WINAPI_"
Structures are prefixed "WIN32_"
Inserts are prefixed "WINAPI_"

A list of all the library components can be found in the RDK README.TXT file.


Enjoy!


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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 June 2010 at 10:41

    Thanks Capt C.
    Truly useful stuff!

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  2. Matt Crozier21 April 2022 at 01:26

    Is there a version of this for use with OI10? Presumably with any structures and prototypes modified for 64bit where appropriate.
    Cheers, M@

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  3. Captain C21 April 2022 at 10:20

    Hi M@ - Alas, there is not, and there are no plans to do so as they would be duplicating much of the MSWIN_ functionality already found in the product.

    However, these MSWIN_ versions in OI10 cover a lot of it, so you could copy those into the WINAPI_ namespace if you wished. For example, you could open the MSWIN_ version, save as a WINAPI_ version, change the namespace to "WinAPI_" and then apply it and compile.

    If there are any specific functions/structs you are missing in the MSWIN_ then feel free to drop me a line and I'll sort them for you.

    /c

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  4. Matt Crozier22 April 2022 at 03:18

    Hi Carl - yeah, I thought that might be the case. I wasn't sure as WINPI seems a lot more comprehensive than MSWIN (v10.1) at the moment ;).
    I think going forward we'd want to use MSWIN where possible, and even implement this namespace in OI9 for portability; and implement WINAPI in OI10 as you've described, where not.

    I'll let you know of anything we need that isn't in MSWIN :)
    Cheers, M@

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