Hi!

Is there any useful 32Bit Windows API Documentation on the Internet,
(especially) for Borland Delphi? URLs are welcome.

Tschau
           Jan

 * Origin: No woman no cry!  (2:2426/3195.148)

There is a help file with D3 called win32.hlp. It describes the 32 bit API
and tells you which functions work with 95 and NT.

Eric...

Right Eeker, but that file is not correct ... i mean i found some mistakes,
and some functions missing !!!

So where to find a better/more complete one ??

Eeker a crit dans le message <6crrr0$km...@news1.i1.net>...

In article <6ctvpm$...@saturne.mnet.fr>, "Benoit MICHAUD" <BMich...@mnet.fr>
writes:

Also you need to look at the WIN32.help file in conjunction with the
declarations in Delphi .PAS files in the Source \ RTL \ Sys and Source\RTL\Win
directories. This is necessary because Delphi may not always declare a header
in the format you might expect from the Win32.HLP file (eg var Item instead of
pItem for a pointer to an Item named lpItem in the C declaration).

Alan Lloyd
alangll...@aol.com

Am 23 Feb 98  13:36:06 schrieb Eeker  an All  zum Thema
<Re: Win32 API ?!?>

E> There is a help file with D3 called win32.hlp. It describes the 32 bit
E> API and tells you which functions work with 95 and NT.

Sure, your're right. But the Win32-API Onlinehelp is not good enough that
everybody, who is interested in, can understand what Microsoft really meant!

What I need (and I hope to find sometimes) is a documentation which explains
the API-Calls in a way the Delphi Onlinehelp explained their own procedures and
calls. I mean, a bit more examples, a bit more explanations, so that everybody
can understand what is meant.

Tschau
           Jan

   I agree. It is not complete, but the best I have found so far. Usually,
what I have to do is, find the function that does what I want. Then, use
Delphi's (I guess you would call it) code anticipator and type it in a
parameter at a time, wait until Delphi tells me the next one it expects, and
fill in the blanks. This gets me around the different declarations that
Delphi uses versus the original C that the API was written in.
   Another thing I do that seems to help me narrow down the function I want
is, find one function that is close to what I want, then look under Group.
There it shows me the functions related to the one I have found. Again, a
tedious way to find a needle in a haystack! :)
   I do agree, this is not a very efficient way to do it. If I find anything
better, I'll be sure to post it. Just that this is all I have seen so far.

There is a Delphi book that I just got and it covers only Windows
Apis. Here is the ISBN: 1556225563. If you goto any book store they
can look it up for you. Then name of the book is: The Tomes of Delphi
3 : Win32 Core Api

Hope this helps.

Wayne

On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:12:29 +0100, Jan_Kulmann@INVALID_FTN_ADDRESS

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:08:23 +0100,

If you happen to find such a file, *please* let us know. Win32.hlp is
indeed 'usable', but only the hard way!

Pierre Gemis

I have a book (actually over a year now) which is for C++ and explains
standard win32 API with examples and everything. It is still not for Delphi,
but it made alot of things clear.

Win32 Programming API bible
Waite Press Group

Jack

Benoit MICHAUD heeft geschreven in bericht <6ctvpm$...@saturne.mnet.fr>...

It is my dream that Daniel Appleman takes up Delphi and writes something
as good for it as the stuff he did on using the API from VB.  Actually,
I use his VB tomes for API use from Delphi all the time!  Helps if you
know VB datatypes to start with, though...

I just picked up this book myself, and it looks excellent.
As far as material on the web, there is a group called "Project
JEDI" that is at work publishing information on Delphi and the
Win32 API.  I don't have the URL handy, but search through old
postings to this group at http://www.dejanews.com
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