Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) (06/19/91)
I have been looking through the TPW manuals and I do not see a routine to EXEC another program (win or dos). How does someone run other programs such as NOTEPAD.EXE from with a TPW app? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mark Bramwell, VE3PZR Located in sunny London, Ontario Internet: mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca IP Address: 129.100.22.100 Packet: VE3PZR @ VE3GYQ UWO Phone: (519) 661-3714
oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) (06/19/91)
In article <27237@adm.brl.mil> Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes: I have been looking through the TPW manuals and I do not see a routine to EXEC another program (win or dos). How does someone run other programs such as NOTEPAD.EXE from with a TPW app? This is going to be confusing. TPW only comes with half of the documentation (in paper). One needs to go out and buy the Microsoft SDK documentation for the windows functions. This is from the FAQ posting in comp.windows.ms.programmer. My notes follow. 24. What books are there that I should be using for Windows programming? >> First of all, if you don't have an SDK, you'll want the SDK docs: SDK Reference -- Volume 1 Microsoft Press, 1990, part no. 06856 SDK Reference -- Volume 2 Microsoft Press, 1990, part no. 06857 SDK Guide to Programming Microsoft Press, 1990, part no. 06854 SDK Tools Microsoft Press, 1990, part no. 06854 SAA CUA Advanced Interface Design Guide IBM, 1989, part no. SC26-4582-0 Then you can get into the "aftermarket" books: Charles Petzold: Programming Windows, 2e Microsoft Press, 1990, ISBN 1-55615-264-7 Jeffrey M. Richter: Windows 3: A Developer's Guide M&T Books, 1991, ISBN 1-55851-164-4 The SDK Reference Vol 1 and Vol 2 are sold in the normal book stores as one volume called something like Windows Programming Reference. Get this. Also get the Guide to programming and/or Petzold's Programming Windows. Petzold's book is an easier read but they both seem to cover about the same area. The Tools book is also sold in the stores but it probably won't be useful for TPW programming. I've heard good things about Richter's book, but I haven't seen it. bruce -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (06/20/91)
In article <ONEEL.91Jun19093724@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov> oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) writes: >In article <27237@adm.brl.mil> Mark@hamster.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) writes: > > > I have been looking through the TPW manuals and I do not see a routine to EXEC > another program (win or dos). How does someone run other programs such as > NOTEPAD.EXE from with a TPW app? > >This is going to be confusing. TPW only comes with half of the >documentation (in paper). One needs to go out and buy the Microsoft >SDK documentation for the windows functions. That's not completely true. The WinExec function which Mark needs is documented in the TPW Windows Reference Guide, and in the online help. The SDK documentation is helpful, though you can almost certainly get by without it if you get Petzold's book. The main advantage is that reading something 3 times (TPW, Petzold, SDK) tends to make it a tiny bit more comprehensible (at least to me) than reading it once or twice. The main things missing from the TPW documentation are a general philosophical summary, and examples of using the Windows API. You need at least Petzold for those. Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu