• Examples up to and including Chapter 18 are compiling and "running".
• Some examples in "Chapter 16 The Palette Manager" expect 256 bit color displays - hardware that was ubiquitous in the Windows 98 era.

Revisited C source code for Charles Petzold's Programming Windows 5th Edition ISBN-10 157231995X

The 5th edition Programming Windows was published in 1998 in the era of Windows 98, Windows NT and Internet Explorer 4. There is a 6th edition, but this deals with later Windows technologies - the 5th edition was the last to deal with purely C programming. Many programmers learnt and many are learning Windows Programming from this huge tome and its various editions. An excellent work.

This projects is being tweaked to use CMake. This works with both

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019
• JetBrains CLion with MinGW

As of 2019 Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition is being used.

• Rename the chapter folder and project folder to improve lexicographical sorting and order the projects within a chapter as per the book.
• Reformat code with Ctrl-K Ctrl-D
• Windows 98 is no longer supported - remove any #define WINVER and GetVersion()
• Apply any errata as per various errata references on the interweb. Jason Doucette's errata are referred to on Charles Petzold's own website and are well explained. There is another set of errata at Computer Science Lab.
• Replace WinMain with _tWinMain using PTSTR for szCommand
• There are no long pointers. 16 bit Windows is dead. Replace LPTSTR with PTSTR usw.
• Use safe versions of functions susceptible to buffer overrun e.g. Replace _vsntprintf() with _vsntprintf_s()
• Annotate functions with Microsoft source-code annotation language (SAL)
• (void)fn for functions where return value is ignored.
• Apply #define STRICT and #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
• #include <windows.x> and use its macros where suitable. Edit_GetSel() being an example of one to avoid.

There are limited links to websites or internet sources on this page. Links can go stale. A search engine is your friend.

11 December 2020

• Changed CMakeList.txt so that all resource files are compiled with MSYS2/MinGW.

• Changed a line in HexCalc.dlg so that it compiles with MinGW windres resource compiler.

17 December 2020

• Edited various example C source files to eliminate MinGW compiler warnings. (Needs improvement.)

21 December 2020

• Reordered some targets in CMakeLists.txt to match order of examples in book.

• Extended practice of naming executables for all examples to include a sequence number.

• Removed spurious dependencies for some examples in CMakeLists.txt.

• Added some missing targets for some examples in CMakeLists.txt.

• Corrected some C source files as per FAQ for Programming Windows, 5th Edition.

• Corrected some C source files as per Errata for Petzold's book "Programming Windows Fifth Edition".

• Corrected some C source files as per Programming Windows, Fifth Edition Errata Addendum.

• Identified examples described in the book that do not work properly on Windows 10:

  • Chapter 14 Bitmaps and Bitblts/Bounce1
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/SysPal1
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/SysPal2
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/SysPal3
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/Bounce
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/Fader
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/AllColor
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/Pipes
  • Chapter 16 The Palette Manager/Tunnel
  • Chapter 23 A Taste of the Internet/NetTime
  • Chapter 23 A Taste of the Internet/UpdDemo

5 January 2021

• Update list of TIME servers for NetTime demo. (NB this TCP service is deprecated.)
• Modified UpdDEmo demo to connect to iFTP service on localhost (but still not working)

28 February 2021

• Modified "Chapter 14 Bitmaps and Bitblts/BitBlt" example slightly to work better with Desktop Windows Manager (DWM). NB GetSystemMetrics is no longer sufficent to obtain window geometry because it is complicated by DWM. Capturing the icon from the titlebar is also complicated by DWM due to a timing issue when window is created. See discussion on Stack Overflow Why this BitBlt example doesn't work anymore?.

2 March 2021

• Modified "Chapter 14 Bitmaps and Bitblts/Stretch" example slightly to work better with Desktop Windows Manager (DWM).

git clone https://github.com/mayd/petzold-pw5e
cd petzold-pw5e
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles"
cd ..
MAKEFLAGS=-k cmake --build build --target