(Resent) Documentation - Reference to MSDN?

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 30 15:13:05 CDT 2010


Erich Hoover <ehoover at mines.edu> wrote:
>Sent: Jun 30, 2010 12:43 PM
>To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Cc: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>, Max TenEyck Woodbury <max at mtew.isa-geek.net>, wine-devel at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: (Resent) Documentation - Reference to MSDN?
>
>On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:36 PM, James Mckenzie
><jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> How about some place on the Wiki along with an implementation status.  That way we can also annotate items that are missing in MSDN (I just re-stumbled across something in my latest Richedit tests) as well.  This would help greatly in our progress towards current and future implementations of the Windows API.
>>
>> And I agree, adding all of this to the source would make it unwieldy.
>>
>
>So something like "http://wiki.winehq.org/WineAPI/<DLL>/<Function>" ?
>If that's acceptable I would not mind a system like that, especially
>if the links of documented functions are provided in the source.
>Documenting these things is a lot of work, so I'm not about to run off
>and do all that work if no-one is ever going to take advantage of it.
>
+1
Acceptable variables should be listed in an order other than the one on MSDN.  We don't want a direct copy, but rather OUR findings using the old 'black box' method.

James McKenzie



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