Re: Using the WINAPI forbidden ?

["J. Marshall" <a_revelation@hotmail.com>]

Try http://www.adapower.com/windows/ if you didn't figure it out.
JM


David Botton wrote in message <7ompto$km8$1@news.gate.net>...
>The copyright is not on the API call (although who knows what MS would
argue
>in court), but rather on the binding. It perhaps might be argued that any
>binding is a derived work of the MS SDK, so who knows.....
>
>In the mean time, take a look a these projects at
>http://www.adapower.com/windows:
>   The AdaWin thin binding
>   Windex thick Win32 binding
>   Claw thick Win32 binding
>   Aonix's Win32 binding / GUI Builder objects
>
>for alternatives if you feel you need one.
>
>If you have been programing for any length of time and ever purchased any
>Win32 product with the SDK (just about all Win32 programming tools), you
are
>probably (legal term for should be) covered.
>
>David Botton
>
>
>Alfred Hilscher wrote in message <37AEF336.181D@_X_vossnet.de>...
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I have a (simple ?) question. I would like to write some Windows GUI
>>applications. I use WinNT 4.0 and GNAT 3.11. The Windows bindings
>>contains text that say "... may be used only by licensees of MS SDK".
>>Does this mean, that I am not allowed to write programs that use API
>>calls ? Why not (I think with OS/2 and Unix there is not such
>>restriction) ? What have I to do to be allowed to ? What is the cheapest
>>way ? I have only the pure OS with no other MS software.
>>
>>Thanks for your answer,
>>Alfred
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