Updates to the WindowsAPI translation instructions; D2 only?

[Stewart Gordon]

On 02/08/2013 06:51, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
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> I would seriously take into consideration to just drop the "A" versions. D is unicode by
> nature, the "W" versions are supported by all NT systems (since Windows 95 using MSLU),
> and using an ANSI version of a function also just begs for bugs if typed as "char*"
> instead of "ubyte*". Many newer functions also just have a single wide string variant.

Maybe, but there are probably a number of programs out there that still use ANSI for 
backward compatibility reasons.

> IMO this is just legacy cruft that was maybe still useful in times when supporting Windows
> 95 was important and MSLU had to be installed as an explicit add-on, but for nothing else
> really (although frequently used in C programs because it saves typing an additional
> character: "" vs. L"" or even _T("")).
>
> Also switching API based on a version statement always introduces a chance to break
> interoperability of two libraries that require the version to be set differently.
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I'm not sure what else some library might reasonably define version(Unicode) to mean that 
might cause a conflict....

Stewart.

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