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From: Dave Wood <dpw@thomsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Programming for MS-Windows
Date: 1996/09/17
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> 
> Marc wrote:
> > I am looking for a textbook that might explain how to write MS-Windows
> > applications. I have some (DOS-praogramming) experience in ADA, C and
> > Fortran77, but the step from programming DOS applications to Windows
> > applications seems quite huge to me.
> > All the information I have found about writing Windows-stuff, was
> > related to learning C++, something I do not intend right now.
> >
> 
> I just picked up a copy of "Programming Windows 95" by Charles Petzold,
> from Microsoft Press. He explains how Windows works, using C code as
> examples. No C++, no GUI builders, no IDEs to get in the way. Given a
> thin Ada binding to the Windows API, this is the book you want.
> 

By the way, we have converted the Petzold
examples into Ada 95 and include them with
ObjectAda for Windows.

-- Dave Wood
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows
-- Thomson Software Products
-- http://www.thomsoft.com