Joe Geiser writes:
> [Bruce Toback writes....]
>>Where do I find [the WIN32 API spec]? What manual do I order? Can
>>*anybody* answer that question? I want an official Microsoft document,
>>not some third-party book.
>
>For the beginner to intermediate developer, the book "Programming Windows
>95" by Charles Petzold (ISBN 1-55615-676-6, Lists for US$49.95) is a
>valuable resource and has all of what one would normally need for the Win32
>API.  Since the API is extremely large, specialized calls might be found in
>one of the specialized companion editions.

Well, I have Petzold for 2.0, Petzold for 3.0, Petzold for 3.1 and
Petzold for '95. And I'm not sure what you mean by "beginning to
intermediate" since *every* Windows developer I know has a copy of
Petzold. But what I'm after is the documentation for the API spec, not a
how-to book. The Win3.1 SDK shipped with a four-volume manual set that
listed all of the API functions, all the data structures, and had an
overview of the API by category (graphics, process control, and so on).
I'm looking for the same thing for Win32. MFC, Microsoft's so-called
application framework, often maps one-to-one to the Windows API, so
there's effectively some Win32 documentation in the MFC reference
manuals. But the entire API isn't accessible through MFC, so that's not a
satisfactory substitute. I searched Microsoft's web site, but did not
find anything like the Win3.1 SDK documentation.

-- Bruce


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