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    Copyright
    Praise for The Old New Thing
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    About the Author
    Ch. One. Initial Forays into User Interface Design
    Ch. Two. Selected Reminiscences on Windows 95
    Ch. Three. The Secret Life of GetWindowText
    Ch. Four. The Taskbar and Notification Area
    Ch. Five. Puzzling Interface Issues
    Ch. Six. A History of the GlobalAlloc Function
    Ch. Seven. Short Topics in Windows Programming
    Ch. Eight. Window Management
    Ch. Nine. Reminiscences on Hardware
    Ch. Ten. The Inner workings of the Dialog Manager
    Ch. Eleven. General Software Issues
    Ch. Twelve. Digging into the Visual C++ Compiler
    Ch. Thirteen. Backward Compatibility
    Ch. Fourteen. Etymology and History
    Ch. Fifteen. How Window Messages are Delivered and Retrieved
    Ch. Sixteen. International Programming
    Ch. Seventeen. Security
    Ch. Eighteen. Windows 2000 and Windows XP
    Ch. Nineteen. Win32 Design Issues
    Why does Win32 fail a module load if an import could not be resolved?
    Why are structure sizes checked strictly?
    Why do I have to return this goofy value for WM_DEVICECHANGE?
    The arms race between programs and users
    Why can’t you trap TerminateProcess?
    Why do some processes stay in Task Manager after they’ve been killed?
    Understanding the consequences of WAIT_ABANDONED
    Why can’t I put hyperlinks in notification icon balloon tips?
    Why can’t I use the same tree item multiple times?
    The kooky STRRET structure
    Why can’t you set UTF-8 as your ANSI code page?
    When should you use a sunken client area?
    Why is there no all-encompassing superset version of Windows?
    Why is it even possible to disable the desktop, anyway?
    What are the window and menu nesting limits?
    What’s the difference between HWND_TOP and HWND_TOPMOST?
    Ch. Twenty. Taxes
    Ch. Twenty-One. Silliness
    Tales of Application Compatibility
    How to Ensure that Your Program Does Not Run Under windows 95
    Index
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    Chapter Nineteen. Win32 Design Issues

    Chapter Nineteen. Win32 Design Issues

    BY NOW YOU’VE probably gotten a feel for some of the types of decisions that went into the design of Win32. Making it easier to port a program from 16-bit Windows to 32-bit Windows, for example, was a major motivator in the early days. Here, we dig a little deeper into the philosophy of Win32, starting with how Win32 was shaped by lessons learned from 16-bit Windows.


      

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