Yet another effort at translating the Win32 API headers

[Don Clugston]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> In article <e0k1g0$du9$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Don Clugston says...
>> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>> I'm inclined that there are the following versions for the end 
>>> programmer to concern him/herself with:
>>>
>>> - for Windows 9x compatibility: Windows98, WindowsME, WindowsNTonly
>>> - for Windows NT compatibility: Windows2000, WindowsXP, Windows2003
>>> - for IE compatibility: IE3, IE4, IE401, IE5, IE501, IE6
>>>
>>> which should be mapped to internal versions based on the above 
>>> list.
>> This sounds right to me.  Are there any which are based on service 
>> packs?  (eg XP SP2, which seemed to involve big changes to the OS?)
> 
> There have indeed been some API features added in service packs.  
> However, these service packs don't tend to be included in the 
> headers.  Rather, I think they just go in as being in the next major 
> Windows version up.
> 
>> Anyway, I've converted winerror.h (using Excel this time, since it 
>> was so repetitive!).  I think you'll like this one, I spent some 
>> time sorting the values.
> 
> The web interface (with my being away from my usual workstation) is 
> playing up so I can't download the attachment at the mo.  But I'll 
> have a look as soon as I can.
> 
>> How about setting up a repository for this?  Maybe resurrect one of 
>> the dead dsource projects which was attempting to do exactly this.  
>> D.announce is a terrible place to be submitting files to!
> 
> I thought about that a while ago.  However, I can't really do it 
> simply because I haven't been able to get SVN to work on my Mac.  It 
> appears to be a problem with my Internet connection - the error is 
> 400 Bad Request IIRC.  I've tried to find a solution but had no luck.  
> The only SVN repository I've found that works for me is the backup of 
> DStress.

I've copied them into the dsource Bindings repository for now, you 
should at least be able to see the web version of the files. I've done 
winbase now, too -- another one of the central ones, which is included 
very early in windows.h. Next, I'll complete the bits I left out of wingdi.