The "big" win32 API help package

[Ghirai]

Regarding this thread: http://www.masmforum.com/simple/index.php?topic=1515.0

The file cand be downloaded here: http://ghirai.com/hutch/mmi.html
Or directly here: http://ghirai.com/hutch/files/win32hlp_big.zip (25.9 MiB).

Feel free to spread the html link around, but the direct link to the zip can be accesed only from this forum, because i have hotlink protection enabled.
Hope everything is clear :P

Oh, and questions regarded to the file's contents/consistency/etc should be addressed to Xor Stance (or anyone who looked at the package), as i'm only hosting it.

[Vortex]

Hi Ghirai,

That's great, thanks :U

[Xor Stance]

Ghirai thanks so much, however  ::) Pbrennick did all that hard worked to be able to put it in 7zip. The size it's different  23,5 MB was that Pbrennick compressed it. It will be up to you now if you want to zip it again I doubt if zip has that capacity. But never mind, I'm just praising Pbrennick hard work with his problem to download it, the good thing that it's up now. Another approach is that, the Win32 it's a bit disorder and
somehow the doc should be all linked, if ever anyone could fix this in future. But all of it is there, I'm just being optimist. I'm happy that at least
I contributed with the community. Keep the hard work!

[pbrennick]

Char,
It is nice of you to acknowledge my efforts.  I worked for many hours on it.  But you did, also.  In a way, it feels like wasted effort but what the hell.  We had fun working together.

Ghirai:  There is no such thing as hotlink protection.  To defeat it all someone has to do is copy it and paste it in the address bar and it will work from anywhere.  Be warned.  They can also paste it in their Favorites or Bookmarks.

Paul

[Mark Jones]

Here is a list of the API constants. It is from 1999 but maybe it is still useful.

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[Ghirai]

Paul, yes, i'm fully aware of that, i just don't want the direct download link posted all over.
And of course it works if you paste it in a new window.

That's the point, it helps me at the stats :U


I uploaded in .zip format because 7z is pretty uncommon, and most users never heard of the format, and wouldn't know how to open it.
The few extra MiB don't matter much imo.

[hutch--]

There is a way on a unix based server to prevent direct linking to files so that people cannot set up their pages using other peoples bandwidth and from memory its done in the ".htaccess" file in the root of the account that contains the domain name.

[Ghirai]

Yes, and it's done automatically by cPanel :P

[pbrennick]

Ghirai,
7Zip may be uncommon but it does better compression.  It also supports zip.  It was compressed that way and I just forgot to name it .zip when I ultimately renamed it.

Sorry I confused you, you could have asked me.  It would have been polite.

Paul

[Ghirai]

I'm sorry, i was in a big rush, and didn't even notice until later that it was in a different format, i just converted to zip and throwed it on the site.
The 7z is still there, i'll replace the zip when i have a few minutes.

[pbrennick]

Ghirai,
Every bit of bandwidth that you can save is a big thing for you and the downloader.  The difference between the two file sizes is significant in that context.  If you need help, just ask but I know you are smart.  Ewayne also uses this format.  Hutch does also if I remember correctly.  Lots of people can help if you need it.  It is a nice thing that you are doing.

Paul

[hutch--]

The actual decompression stub for 7zip is not a problem for SFX archives of any reasonable size so I would be tempted to use 7zip as an SFX and just wrap it in a zip format for internet download safety. Even minor gains in file size are worth having as it save considerable bandwidth.

[pbrennick]

Ghirai,
Converting the archive back to 7zip as a self-extracting archive and wrapping it in a zip as Hutch recommended yields a 20mb bundle.  This is good savings and is a very workable solution.  Thanks Hutch.

Paul

[Ghirai]

Alright.

I'll convert it when i get home tonight, hopefully i'll have some time then.
I'll post here when i have it done.

[Ghirai]

Ok, same url, but now it's 4 MiB less, that is 21.9 MiB.

Inside the zip there's a 7z SFX, with a win32 GUI stub, packed with upx.
From my experinece, some people might have trouble with the console version ::)

@hutch, maybe you can make a pinned and closed thread with the url http://ghirai.com/hutch/mmi.html, so people cand find it and get what they need?
And with the note that if anyone has some masm/etc related files and wants them mirrored/hosted, he/she should contact me.