DirectX API information - where?

[Tels]

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Moin,

I want to learn more about the directx and general windows APIs. Now
I looked at some books, but was very unsure as to buy what and where, if
ever.

First, it seems that good books about these topics come from Microsoft
Press. Naturally I don't want to support them ;)
Second, it seems that you need for the examples and SDK Visual C++ - again
from MS. Eeek!
And of course, you have to run and use it under Windows *sigh*
I am also worried about the different EULAs, licence and all that other
stuff "tainting" me - even though I do believe that all of this stuff isn't
legal binding for me anyway. But you never know.

So, my question: Where can I obtain *free* information about the API's,
their working etc. What do you use? Books you can advise?

Thank you in advance,

Tels

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[Andreas Mohr]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 07:09:52PM +0200, Tels wrote:
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>
> Moin,
>
> I want to learn more about the directx and general windows APIs. Now
> I looked at some books, but was very unsure as to buy what and where, if
> ever.
>
> First, it seems that good books about these topics come from Microsoft
> Press. Naturally I don't want to support them ;)
> Second, it seems that you need for the examples and SDK Visual C++ - again
> from MS. Eeek!
> And of course, you have to run and use it under Windows *sigh*
> I am also worried about the different EULAs, licence and all that other
> stuff "tainting" me - even though I do believe that all of this stuff isn't
> legal binding for me anyway. But you never know.
>
> So, my question: Where can I obtain *free* information about the API's,
> their working etc. What do you use? Books you can advise?

search.microsoft.com.

That's where I get quite some information from.

Apart from that, mostly web searches and my pretty good collection of
books (it's starting to extend to 1 meter of expert windows books now :-)

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[Steven Edwards]

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[Roland]

At 10:47 PM 4/3/02 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> search.microsoft.com.
>
> That's where I get quite some information from.
>
> Apart from that, mostly web searches and my pretty good collection of
> books (it's starting to extend to 1 meter of expert windows books now :-)

Ok, let me ask this question:

where do you get the information about the *nix API, the X-Windows API, 
OpenGL etc?

Roland

[Vincent Béron]

Roland a écrit :
> At 10:47 PM 4/3/02 +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > search.microsoft.com.
> >
> > That's where I get quite some information from.
> >
> > Apart from that, mostly web searches and my pretty good collection of
> > books (it's starting to extend to 1 meter of expert windows books now :-)
>
> Ok, let me ask this question:
>
> where do you get the information about the *nix API, the X-Windows API,
> OpenGL etc?
>
> Roland

*nix: man 3 should have a lot of info.
X-Window (without the "s"): www.xfree86.org. If you want something more
portable, try starting at www.x.org.
OpenGL: www.opengl.org

There are also a ton of books on each of those subjects, although
picking the good ones is difficult.

Vincent