DWinProgramming - D WinAPI programming

This is a collection of samples from Charles Petzold's Programming Windows book, translated into the D programming language. It also contains a small collection of other Windows API samples.

See examples.txt for a description of the samples.

This project has been created by Andrej Mitrovic. Project Homepage: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming

Building Requirements

• Windows 7 or newer. (lately only tested on Win 10)
• Compiler: DMD v2.100.

Building

Run:

$ rdmd build.d

Optional Tools

• HTOD: https://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/htod.html HTOD needs to be in your PATH. It's probably best to put it in the \DMD2\Windows\Bin directory.

• Microsoft RC compiler and header files. Without these the build script will use precompiled .res files.

  • Unless you have Visual Studio installed, get it from: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c17ba869-9671-4330-a63e-1fd44e0e2505&displaylang=en
  • RC needs to be in your PATH if you want to compile resources. If you have Visual Studio installed, you can use the Visual Studio Command Prompt.

  Note: This is a big download, depending on what you select in the setup. Note: DigitalMars has a resource compiler, but it still requires header files. See the "Using Resources in D" Tutorial in the Links section.

  • Create the RCINCLUDES environment variable and add paths to the header files needed by the RC resource compiler. On an XP system these paths could be: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\include C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\atlmfc\include

    Typically the include paths for resource header files are different on each system, so you will have to adjust these.

  Note: The build script will attempt to find these default paths if you don't have RCINCLUDES already set up. Note: Setting up an environment variable might require you to log off and log on again before the build script can pick up the new changes.

• The uncrustify executable bundled with UniversalIndentGUI could be outdated compared to the latest Uncrustify version. Please see the Uncrustify homepage in the Links section in this Readme to get the latest binary or to compile from source.

Contact

Please do not e-mail Charles Petzold about bugs in these examples, any bugs in these samples are entirely my fault. File bugs here: https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/DWinProgramming/issues

Acknowledgments

Big Thanks to Charles Petzold for writing a great Windows API programming book and for allowing me to host these code samples online.

Contributors

Simen Endsjø tested the project on an x64 Win7 system and found several issues. Leonardo Maffi created a Python script that got rid of stray parens.

Thanks goes out to all contributors.

Licensing

All code examples copyright belongs to Charles Petzold. Also see the answer to the 3rd question here: https://www.charlespetzold.com/faq.html

Links

Programming Windows Homepage: https://www.charlespetzold.com/pw5/

Using Resources in D Tutorial: https://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/WindowsResources