Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!atha!aunro!ersys!bns From: bns@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Dollmont) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Programming in Windows Borland Style Message-ID: Date: 23 Jun 91 21:32:23 GMT References: Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 34 pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang) writes: > > > Also, is there a good book which teaches one how to program Windows with > > Turbo Pascal? > > Well, the manuals which come with Borland compilers generally include a > fairly good tutorial... > And the key word here is _generally_. If you had to rely only on the TPW documentation to write programs with TPW, you would go quite mad in a short period of time. Much is missing from the documentation (for example, there is no _good_ discussion on installing hooks), and you will need a supplement. One good supplement is Charles Petzold's Programming Windows version 3 (ISBN 1-55615-264-7). Naturally, all the sample code is in C, but the principles are the same and the book is extremely helpful. Microsoft also makes a subset of the SDK documentation available, but I cannot remember the name of the book. It is published by Microsoft Press, though, so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding it. After two months of intense Windows programming, I find that I almost never access the Borland documentation. Most of it available on-line, and the stuff that's not on-line is next to useless, anyway. Petzold's book has become invaluable, however. Chris | Chris Dollmont | USENET: bns@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca | Blue North Software | Mail: 16936D 85th Ave. | | Edmonton, AB T5R 4A3 | These opinions remain valid only as long as they are visible...