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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/webfreak001/dwinprogramming
- Owner: WebFreak001
- Created: 2015-09-07T18:59:52.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-09-07T19:00:19.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-11T04:13:42.925Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: D
- Homepage: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming
- Size: 2.71 MB
- Stars: 19
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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README
# DWinProgramming - D WinAPI programming
This is a collection of samples from Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book,
translated into the D programming language. It also contains a small collection
of other Windows API samples.
See examples.txt for a description of the samples.
This project has been created by Andrej Mitrovic.
Project Homepage: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming
## Building Requirements
- Windows XP or newer.
- Compiler: [DMD] v2.065 or [GDC] 2.065.
[DMD]: http://dlang.org/download.html
[GDC]: http://gdcproject.org/downloads/
## Building
Compile the build script:
$ make_build.bat
And then to build all samples via DMD call:
$ build.exe
Alternatively to build all the samples via GDC call:
$ build.exe GDC
Note: Building all samples is quite slow with GDC at the moment.
To build only a single example, CD to its directory and run:
$ ..\..\..\build.exe filename.d (filename being the main file)
Other options are: clean, debug.
## Useful Scripts
- Use `dbg.bat` to quickly invoke the ddbg debugger on an executable. ('dbg main.exe')
- Use `gdmd.bat` to invoke the GDMD perl script. ('gdmd main.d -ofmain.exe')
- Use `where.bat` to find out the location of an exe/batch file. ('where dmd')
## Optional Tools
- HTOD: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/htod.html
HTOD needs to be in your PATH. It's probably best to put it in the \DMD2\Windows\Bin
directory.
- Microsoft RC compiler and header files. Without these the build script will use
precompiled .res files.
- Unless you have Visual Studio installed, get it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c17ba869-9671-4330-a63e-1fd44e0e2505&displaylang=en
- RC needs to be in your PATH if you want to compile resources. If you have Visual Studio installed, you can use the Visual Studio Command Prompt.
Note: This is a big download, depending on what you select in the setup.
Note: DigitalMars has a resource compiler, but it still requires header files.
See the "Using Resources in D" Tutorial in the Links section.
- Create the RCINCLUDES environment variable and add paths to the header files needed
by the RC resource compiler.
On an XP system these paths could be:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\atlmfc\include
Typically the include paths for resource header files are different on each system,
so you will have to adjust these.
Note: The build script will attempt to find these default paths if you don't have
RCINCLUDES already set up.
Note: Setting up an environment variable might require you to log off and log on
again before the build script can pick up the new changes.
- The uncrustify executable bundled with UniversalIndentGUI could be outdated compared to
the latest Uncrustify version.
Please see the Uncrustify homepage in the Links section in this Readme to get the
latest binary or to compile from source.
## Contact
Please do not e-mail Charles Petzold about bugs in these examples,
any bugs in these samples are entirely my fault.
File bugs here: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/issues
## Acknowledgments
Thanks to the authors of the WindowsAPI translation project:
http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
Big Thanks to Charles Petzold for writing a great Windows API programming book and
for allowing me to host these code samples online.
## Contributors
Simen Endsjø tested the project on an x64 Win7 system and found several issues.
Leonardo Maffi created a Python script that got rid of stray parens.
Thanks goes out to all contributors.
## Licensing
All code examples copyright belongs to Charles Petzold.
Also see the answer to the 3rd question here:
http://www.charlespetzold.com/faq.html
## Links
D2 Programming Language Homepage: http://d-programming-language.org/
Code samples of using Win32 API and Cairo: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/cairoDSamples
How to make extensionless files open in your editor in WinXP: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/08/08/associate-extensionless-files-with-notepad/
Note: Also, make sure you hit the 'Open with' button and select your editor.
How to make extensionless files open in your editor in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (and probably XP):
Run this in the command prompt:
assoc .="No Extension"
ftype "No Extension"="C:\path\to\your editor.exe" "%1"
Also see http://superuser.com/a/13947/47065
Programming Windows Homepage: http://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/
Programming Windows C Code Samples: http://www.charlespetzold.com/books.html
(search for ProgWin5.zip)
Charles Petzold FAQ: http://www.charlespetzold.com/faq.html
Programming Windows Errata #1: http://www.computersciencelab.com/PetzoldErrata.htm
Programming Windows Errata #2: http://www.jasondoucette.com/books/pw5/pw5errata.html
MSDN GDI page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd145203%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
MSDN list of Windows APIs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff818516.aspx
Windows API bindings: http://dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
RDMD: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/rdmd.html
RDMD@github: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools
HTOD: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/htod.html
DDBG D Debugger: http://ddbg.mainia.de/doc.html
Uncrustify - Code Beautifier: http://sourceforge.net/projects/uncrustify/develop
UniversalIndentGUI - GUI Frontend for Code Beautifiers:
http://universalindent.sourceforge.net/
Using Resources in D Tutorial: http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/WindowsResources
Unicode Character Viewer: http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/
Environment Variables: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
Environment Editor: http://www.rapidee.com/