basics of windows using API

[make me rain]

i have seen & copied many windows API code snippets in this forum
but i didn't know what they are & how the job they do
even i purchased some books but i could not follow the H00&
etc hexa codes. i don't know C.
on asking some one they told me that " Oh it is very simple! and to know English is it necessary to know German !?* forget C.,,, etc)
please guide me with some basic tutorials if any please.

thank u all.

[Hack]

Moved From The Classic VB CodeBank

[si_the_geek]

You do not need to know C - it is almost completely irrelevant.


To find out what an API function does, read the official documentation for it (but ignore any code, as the examples are C!):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...88(VS.85).aspx

To get a VB example, check out this site:
http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/apilist.php
...and/or search the forums.



Things like &H12 are actually just numbers - the &H means that the numbers/letters after it are a number in Hexadecimal (16 possible values per digit), rather than normal Decimal numbers (10 possible values per digit).

If they have & at the end too (eg: &H12&), that just means to use a data type of Long, rather than what VB would pick by default.

If you use a calculator (or use MsgBox in VB code), you will see that &H12 (Hexadecimal 12) is 18 in Decimal.

Note that if you want to use the numbers from the Microsoft documentation, you just need to change the first two digits from 0x to &H

[Shaggy Hiker]

There's also a handy Hex -> Decimal -> Binary converter in the built-in calculator that ships with windows, just select the Scientific option for the calculator.