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From: dixon@sagittarius.crd.ge.com (walt dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Some basic windows/386 programming questions
Keywords: MS Windows
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Date: 17 Mar 90 02:20:23 GMT
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Reply-To: dixon@crd.ge.com (walt dixon)
Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
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I've just begun to use the windows sdk to develop code for windows/386
and have been wondering about a couple of things.  The answers to these
questions may be burried in one of the manuals,  but I have not stumbled
upon the answers yet.

(1) After I start up windows/386,  I run command.com.  When I try to make
    an application,  I usually get a msc (5.1) error saying that the far
    heap is exhausted.  Is this normal or do I have something improperly
    configured?  I'm running on a compaq 386 with 6MB.  I've got reasonable
    values for files and buffers in config.sys.  lastdrive=v (I sometimes
    run pc/nfs,  but none of that software is loaded when I have this
    problem).  I've got ansi.sys and smartdriv.sys in config.sys,  and
    the microsoft mouse software is installed in autoexec.bat.  There
    are no other drivers or tsr's.

(2) Is there a preferred way to build the resource (.rc) file?  All the
    examples I've seen manually build dialogs,  etc.  and include their
    definition directly in the .rc file.  I want to use the available
    utilities (dialog editor, etc).  It does not seem practical to manaully
    merge resource definitions into a .rc file, because it becomes cumbersome
    to modify these resources.  I'm currently using the rcinclude directive.
    This approach works,  but the resource compiler seems to be very picky
    over include files.  I've had to play with what appeared to be a valid
    .rc file to get it to compile succesfully.  Is there a better way?
     I'm working on what will be a fairly large program.

(3) Is there an alternative to the icon editor?  I'm not real impressed
    with the way a 64x64 bit may gets shrunk to 64X32.  The bits are too
    small and the pencil cursor is too big.

(4) Is there a way to ask the dialog editor to ignore duplicate ids whose
    value is -1?  I thought a -1 meant that one did not care about the
    id.


Thanks for your time

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