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Revisited C source code for Charles Petzold's Programming Windows 5th Edition ISBN-10 157231995X
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Revisited C source code for Charles Petzold's Programming Windows 5th Edition ISBN-10 157231995X

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/recombinant/petzold-pw5e
• Owner: recombinant
• Created: 2015-08-29T20:29:21.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-20T19:01:41.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-02T10:36:57.097Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 852 KB
• Stars: 41
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 27
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
### Work in progress. 

- Examples up to and including Chapter 18 are compiling and "running". 

- Some examples in *"Chapter 16 The Palette Manager"* expect 256 bit color 

  displays - hardware that was ubiquitous in the Windows 98 era. 

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# petzold-pw5e

Revisited C source code for Charles Petzold's Programming Windows 5th Edition ISBN-10 157231995X

The 5th edition Programming Windows was published in 1998 in the era of Windows 98,

 Windows NT and Internet Explorer 4. There is a 6th edition, but this deals with

 later Windows technologies - the 5th edition was the last to deal with purely C

 programming. Many programmers learnt and many are learning Windows Programming

 from this huge tome and its various editions. An excellent work.

Contents of this repository

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This projects is being tweaked to use CMake. This works with both

- Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 

- JetBrains CLion with MinGW

Updating C source code

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**As of 2019 Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition is being used.**

- Rename the chapter folder and project folder to improve lexicographical

   sorting and order the projects within a chapter as per *the book*.

- Reformat code with *Ctrl-K Ctrl-D*

- Windows 98 is no longer supported - remove any `#define WINVER` and

   `GetVersion()`

- Apply any errata as per various errata references on the interweb. Jason Doucette's

   errata are referred to on Charles Petzold's own website and are well explained.

   There is another set of errata at *Computer Science Lab*.

- Replace `WinMain` with `_tWinMain` using `PTSTR` for `szCommand`

- There are no long pointers. 16 bit Windows is dead. Replace `LPTSTR` with `PTSTR` usw.

- Use safe versions of functions susceptible to buffer overrun e.g. Replace

   `_vsntprintf()` with `_vsntprintf_s()`

- Annotate functions with Microsoft source-code annotation language (SAL)

- (void)fn for functions where return value is ignored.

- Apply `#define STRICT` and `#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN`

- `#include ` and use its macros where suitable. `Edit_GetSel()`

   being an example of one to avoid.

Notes

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