Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Would be "so" useful if... I don't know, I was some place where there 
>> wasn't any internet, or FSM forbid, the "bug" caused loss of access to 
>> that, now wouldn't it.
> 
> I'm not real sure what you expect, then. Go buy the book that lists all 
> the codes, maybe?  How many of them do you think you're going to look up?
> 
>> Just plain logic demands that its "not" as good as having something 
>> "in hand".
> 
> And if this really is a frequent problem for you, you go buy the book. 
> Be forewarned: it's pretty friggin big.  Do you really need a complete 
> list of every event ever logged by any piece of hundreds of megabytes of 
> code?
> 
Sigh.. Software, not a web page. Yes, software is easier, but web pages 
are only convenient "if" you can get to them. That is the point. As for 
books.. Gah.. Same situation as with API-Guide. I own most of the books 
covering the stuff in that program, and its "easier" to find the stuff 
in API-Guide, not to mention that the "examples" in it tend to be far 
more helpful than the, sometimes, too lean and incomplete ones in the 
book. Favorite has got to the the "assumption" that every one of them 
has that you are a) using VC, not anything else, and you "don't need to 
know" what a flag value is, since you can just plug in the .h file for 
it, the reference the name in your code. Yep, that works "so" well, if 
you are trying to access the API via VB, or worse, a Lua wrapper. lol 
Too much to have something "someplace" in one of their dozens of books 
that listed the actual flags and what their "values" are? Apparently... 
:p After all, its makes so much more sense to buy a $600 compiler you 
don't need, than a $50 book you "do". ;)

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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