Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:30:41 11/05/02
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On November 05, 2002 at 17:38:25, Brian Kostick wrote: >You can limit MSVC's (windows.h) use of extra header files with: >#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN >as the first code line of your files. Unless you are making a full blown Win32 windowed application (like a GUI) then you probably don't need windows.h. For example, if you only include windows.h because you want to use GetTickCount() to get the current time, you could include winbase.h instead, which is much smaller than including windows.h. If you look in windows.h it includes everything under the sun. Also, a good resource for you would be http://msdn.microsoft.com. If you have a question about an error, or want to know what header file to include for a function, you can search for it there and it will give you lots of info about it. For example, if you wanted to know what header file to include for GetTickCount() you could search for GetTickCount and it would tell you that you can include windows.h OR winbase.h, and if you have a look at winbase.h you would see that it only includes 1 other file, and windows.h includes dozens of other files, so you'd want to include winbase.h. Russell
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