Sapero's Windows include files(History)

[kryton9]

Thanks for the update Sapero.

[sapero]

Pistol has found a ),; bug in sdl subfolder and reported it. I've fixed this one and removed all other :)
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[kryton9]

Sapero, I don't know if you have ebasic, but do you plan on porting over your includes to it at some time?

[pistol350]

Hi Kryton9!
Me as well would like to see that, since such work would set far more doors open to Emergence.
However, a great amount of work has been done to convert all those Headers from C/C++ to Aurora syntax and having do to that again and port all those files to Emergence syntax seems a too big challenge for me. 
Putting myself in Sapero's shoes, i realize that i would probably not do it.
Anyway, that's my point of view.

Regards!
Peter.

[kryton9]

No doubt it is a huge job. Well Emergence it new yet, I am sure in time we will see conversions of the popular libraries.

[Techno]

Separo

Where can I download the last include files for Aurora?
I have the only old files, and I have need the last include files version

Thanks

[srvaldez]

sapero, you might consider using MediaFire to host your files, you don't have to jump trough hoops to download a file.
http://www.mediafire.com/

[sapero]

I knew mediafire, but the transfer was always slow.
[** - Link Remove - ** version 1715 - added lua and twain, WIA scanner example, plus some include fixups
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[Todd Riggins]

I noticed the duplication of directx variables problem no longer exist, thanks Sapero!

I feel this need to create a graphics library... yet again! 

Programming DirectX with 100% Aurora code is freak'n awsome

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

Yeah it is nice to be able to access COM in a more natural way. 

[Todd Riggins]

Yeah, I keep wondering what your 3d engine would look like in Aurora code out of curiousity.

[sapero]

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stats:

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- 20828 imports
-   175 unions
-  1837 enums
-  8563 structures
-    93 classes
-  5508 interfaces
- 14462 externals (like GUID)
-  3505 constants
-     7 exports
-   103 subs
-    28 methods
fixed POINTS struct, added a lot of new headers, only 260 left.
For debugging guys: added DIA headers from VS2005 - very easy COM library for pdb files.
Added also few synchronous socket examples

[pistol350]

Great stuff and also a great amount of work done 
Keep up Sapero.

Cheers,
Peter

[sapero]

I've just started with porting the headers for Emergence. The first package v1710 contains only the basic includes - windows (all), stdio, conio, stdlib, shlwapi.
The crt includes are linking with the standard import library _crtdll.
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Note: you already have a huge windows.inc file. Please rename it if you want to keep it.
Now I don't know how to continue this thread for EB. Maybe Paul will create new thread with local download link in EB forum, and then move this topic.

[Barney]

Thank you for starting EBasic translation, sapero. Much appreciated. 

Yes. It would be great if EBasic part of this thread moves to EBasic forums.

Barney

[pistol350]

Cheers Sapero

That's really great!
Ebasic Users are really spoilt these days 

[sapero]

Really I do not have idea where to put this installer for Emergence. The roundtable - share your code - no...
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Installer version 1.8, headers 1.1. Install settings are now saved in the registry subkey %EB%/HdrInst.
Added 3MB of headers - a monstrum handwork for this day. Time for relax :)

[sapero]

I've just released the final headers pak, both for Aurora and Emergence. Some (16) headers are still missing (mapi classes).
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The pak for Aurora has been uploaded to free file hosting service - I was unable to upload about 8MB zip to the remository with my 32KB/s uplink.

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[Barney]

Great work, Sapero. Thank you very much!

Barney

[sapero]

Here comes the next pak with wlan api, disphelper, some bugfixes, and the source of my instaler (Aurora pak only).

In the Emergence pak, i have first copied all from Aurora, then do a find/replace in files. This was very bad idea because i've forget about interface pointers, so every interface pointer was replaced with "pointer" (bug).
All interface bugs files included by windows.inc are now fixed, the interface pointers are replaced with "comref" or (only inside structures) with interface name

Aurora Headers 29 apr 2008
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EBasic Headers 29 apr 2008
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[pistol350]

Hi Sapero.
For some strange reason, both of executables crash when i run them. 

Does anyone else have this same problem ?

[sapero]

I'm sorry for this, did not restored the winstartup.o file from a lite version. Please re-download.

[pistol350]

Thank you for the release and the fixes.

[sapero]

A bug has been found in OLE STGMEDIUM structure (search in objidl.inc). It is not so important, but without type casting my latest drag-drop experiment did not compile.

Aurora:

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struct STGMEDIUM
{
DWORD tymed;
union
{
HBITMAP        hBitmap;
HMETAFILEPICT  hMetaFilePict;
HENHMETAFILE   hEnhMetaFile;
HGLOBAL        hGlobal;
LPWSTR         lpszFileName;
IStream       *pstm;
IStorage      *pstg;
}
IUnknown *pUnkForRelease;
}

EBasic:

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type STGMEDIUM
DWORD tymed
union
HBITMAP       hBitmap
HMETAFILEPICT hMetaFilePict
HENHMETAFILE  hEnhMetaFile
HGLOBAL       hGlobal
LPWSTR        lpszFileName
IStream       pstm
IStorage      pstg
endunion
IUnknown pUnkForRelease
endtype

[sapero]

Next upload fixes missing lines in Emergence headers, hidden by invalid multiline comment created by find/replace in files. Eg. missing StopBits from struct DCB.
Fixed two imported fuctions in DhcpCSdk.inc - variable lenght parameter DHCPCAPI_PARAMS_ARRAY should be passed by value.

Emergence:
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Aurora:
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Note about bass.inc - be sure to backup this file if you already have newer than 2.2. In the next release, my bass.inc will be renamed to bass22, bass24 ...