Relics of the past ARRRG

[Sporge27]

Alright so I am trying to figure out the basics of making a windowed program today and found a nice tutorial... but the parts about it I never understood before that I always put in as just because it seems to need it there, are there because they are outdated things that are just needed by windows....

I hate it when I am right. So much code I don't understand is because it is outdated artifacts left in only so backwards compatability is allowed... I would think they could move past it, and just make a mode that runs older programs or something.

NERDRAGE!!!! and yes imad.

 

[Ron Ronaldo]

A lot of that went over my head but...

slap some sense into those artifacts! >:L

 

[Mino]

I already read you griping about this on Facebook! Are you trying to make my life redundant?

 

[Sporge27]

I already read you griping about this on Facebook! Are you trying to make my life redundant?

clearly. You should read everything I write everywhere

To be fair I oddly posted here first and then realized more people I know on facebook would understand lol

 

[Psychonaut]

so basically, the tutorial is way old, and windows 7/vista/whatever isn't old enough to work with the code?

 

[Sporge27]

so basically, the tutorial is way old, and windows 7/vista/whatever isn't old enough to work with the code?

no there are lines of code you have to put in htat really haven't been used since pre windows 95.... yeah, the tutorial finally made me understad what these lines were there for lol.

The fact that it is there for no real reason now is what bugs me

 

[HumanResources]

How complex is the program? Couldn't you get away with using something like vb.net or C# ?

 

[Sporge27]

what? it isn't so much complex as annoying an unreasonable.

Either way I have to use C++ right now. I don't like C# anyway

I only run into a few of these things and it is just to make it a win32 program. It just looks so foreign compared to the other parts I am/will be writing. It is the weird code that gets stuck on the front of a program to scare people away from becoming programmers, I can only assume because the folks who make windows are geniuses who realize that this will secure their jobs in the future

 

[HumanResources]

Are you in a programming class or something? I admitedly know very little about programming but I can't imaging using anything that old for something practical...

There are just so many other more simple programming languages.