Help!!! Please!!

[CyberCarsten]

I am very new to C++, and I have some question regarding creating Windows programs.
My version of C++ is Borland C++ 4.5

When I start on a new Win32 application(I assume this means Windows Application?), there
are three files, opposit a DOS program where there is only one, the .cpp file.

I know that the .rc file is for making buttons and that sort of things, but what do I write
in the .def file? If I don't write anything in it, I get an error.

Any suggestions.....some Windows Programming tutorials????

[Edited by CyberCarsten on 11-05-2000 at 03:00 PM]

[Darkwraith]

If this is a simple Win32 Application, then do not include the .def file into your project.

[Technocrat]

Ah why did you reply to a message that is almost 3 years old?

[Darkwraith]

Read my signature.

(EDIT: Just changing it so that my quote is permanently in this post:

All questions should be answered. All answers should be true. That is why I post.)

[Technocrat]

As nice as that is, I really dont think that some one who posts a message 3 years ago really cares about the answer today. Its not going to do anything but confuse them and others that read it.

[Darkwraith]

Why would it confuse someone who has a Borland 4.5 complier and wants to do Windows Applications?

[cyborg]

lol

[Venom555]

As nice as that is, I really dont think that some one who posts a message 3 years ago really cares about the answer today. Its not going to do anything but confuse them and others that read it.

When people who do searches on these topics find nothing but several unanswered posts, it causes them to ask the same question again, resulting in the 'What is DX and how do I use it? Are there any good websites for DX?' posts.

[Technocrat]

Venom555 - I disagree, most people that ask those types of questions do so because they don't search first.

Dont get me wrong I roll my eyes everytime I see one of the typical questions asked over and over again. Like I am new to C/C++, or what books should I buy.

But answering questions like this, will not help in that instance. This is one post on a non-common topic.


Darkwraith - Its not confusing in the technical way, but more in the forums community. Take for instance your other old post reply. You replied to someone who is not even on the board anymore. So everyone was trying to help them, when that person didn't need it. Thus parksie closed it.

One reason I am stepping in is that I know CyberCarsten and I know that the last time I talked/helped him he was using MSVC. He switch because of a whole slew of issues with using Turbo. So when I read that he was using Turbo again, I was wonder what the hell he was thinking!

I dont disagree that this post might help someone else at some point. But the whole point of the forum is if you dont find the answer you want by searching first, then you ask a question and hopefully everyone or someone can help.

If someone else has this question and cant find the answer I am sure they will ask again and get a better response that addresses the issue they have in a more direct personal fashion.

[Darkwraith]

I answered to the first one because I wanted to give a solution. Sometimes another person would either critque to give their own solution to that problem. Then another and another and so on...

What essentially happens is that the original poster would have received (if he was still on ) a lot of information and the successive posters now have a better way of approaching the problem. So essentially, the programming community, as a whole, had been helped.

I thought that was the point to a forum, to help the community.

(NOTE: There are still institutions that still use 4.5 who are not willing to upgrade. )