Re: [slug-chat] [slug-chat]Windows API

["Steven downing" <steven.downing@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> Crossfire <xfire@xxxxxxxx> 16/02/01 10:05:43 >>>
Crossfire was once rumoured to have said:
> dark-side[1].  Its roughly on par with Xlib - and you need to know a
> bit of Win32 API in order to interact with DirectX [which is why I
> knew it at all - I was trying to aspire to be a games programmer
> during college - now I'm a sysadmin]

I never looked at XLib, I presume that yes it would be rather on a similar level.  Maybe what I should have said is thank god for GTK/Gnome period.  A goose like me can cobble together small programs to my hearts content, PyGnome even if you want, but the WIN API (IMHO) seems to require a greater C/C++ knowledge, plus the memory of an Elephant to be able to read your own code and decipher all the convoluted names/macros etc.  For a part-time beginner coder GTK 'lowers the bar' as it were, to consistent window system programming, allowing more opportunity to learn both the language and the API as you go.

Steve

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