readme.txt

500多个API函数的详细介绍

                            *** API-Guide Readme ***
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                                                         Sunday, 03/11/2000

1. File's needed to run API-Guide:
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 API-Guide.exe   The main executable file
 Data.api        This file contains all the function names, descriptions, 
                 libraries, examples and related functions.
 Data.ini        Initialization file for data.api
 Examples.api    This file contains all the examples, provided by API-Guide.
 Examples.ini    Initialization file for examples.api
 VB5 runtimes    API-Guide is written in VB5, and therefore it needs 
                 the VB5 runtimes. If you don't have these runtimes, you can 
                 download them from the Microsoft website or from 
                 http://members.xoom.com/KPD_Team/msvbvm50.exe
 Wininet.dll     This file is needed for the Internet update. You can download
                 version 5.00.2314.1003 from
                 http://members.xoom.com/KPD_Team/wininet.zip
 Service Pack 3  API-Guide needs the third Visual Basic Service Pack for
                 Visual Basic 5. This file can be downloaded from
                 http://download.microsoft.com/download/vstudio97ent/sp3/Visual_Basic/WIN98/EN-US/vbsp3.exe
                 or, if you're using the Visual Basic RISC-edition
                 http://download.microsoft.com/download/vstudio97ent/sp3/Visual_Basic/ALPHA/EN-US/vb5_sp3.exe


2. What's new in version 2.3.159 ?
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- Decrypt bug:
 A very serious bug was removed from the program, which caused API-Guide
 to crash on the Eastern (Unicode) Windows versions.

- Groups:
 We sorted all the functions by group and we added a group-tree

- Search Option:
 Now you can also search against group-names in the search window

- OS-Info:
 We added extra OS-information with each function. 

- Example-caching:
 When Example caching is enabled, API-Guide decrypts a selected example
 the first time and adds it to the examples-cache. The next time the user
 selects the cached example, API-Guide doesn't have decrypt it anymore.

- Speed:
 We optimized API-Guide for speed, which also decreased the size of
 the API-Guide executable

- Debug script:
 We removed the debug-script. We don't need it anymore.

- 19 New functions, which brings our total to 520 functions:
     FlatSB_EnableScrollBar
     FlatSB_GetScrollInfo
     FlatSB_GetScrollPos
     FlatSB_GetScrollProp
     FlatSB_GetScrollRange
     FlatSB_SetScrollInfo
     FlatSB_SetScrollPos
     FlatSB_SetScrollProp
     FlatSB_SetScrollRange
     FlatSB_ShowScrollBar
     IcmpCloseHandle
     IcmpCreateFile
     IcmpSendEcho
     InitializeFlatSB
     RegCreateKeyEx
     RegDeleteKey
     RegOpenKeyEx
     UninitializeFlatSB


3. The past:
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What was new in version 2.2.135

- Auto-update:
 We added a new option to check for a new version, every time API-Guide is started

- Internet Update (download):
 Version 2.2.135 uses a different method to download new API-Guide updates, which
 makes our Internet Update totally asynchronous (the update option from the previous
 versions was 'almost' asynchronous)

- Internet Update (ping):
 As you can see, we also changed our ping method and layout

- New API-Functions:
 Once again, 84 new API-functions were added to the list (a total of 501 functions).


What was new in version 2.1.10

- Internet Update:
 A bug, which could cause some problems when downloading the compressed
 data files, was fixed.

- Search option:
 We added a new search option. Now you can search against examples.

- Links:
 Two new links were added: MSDN Online Library and MSDN Online Support

- Debug:
 A new debug-script was added to the API-Guide code.

- New API-Functions:
 We added 47 new functions


What was new in version 2.0.83?

 - Layout:
  We've severely changed the API-Guide layout to, what we believe,
  a new easy-to-use and handy layout.
 
 - Data file:
  We've removed some bugs from the data-file. Certain references
  to examples contained typos, and these typo's caused
  the program to crash, when the user tried to view the one
  of these examples.
 
 - Internet Update:
  Version 2.0 supports the use of proxy-servers and asynchronous downloading
  (this means that the files on the Internet can be downloaded without blocking
  the response of the user interface. This allows the user to cancel a download
  at any time).
  You can also select a server to download from, and before you make your choice
  you can ping the servers, to select the fastest one.
 
 - Data-Decryption algorithm:
  A little bug was fixed in the decryption algorithm for our data files, and the 
  algorithm's speed has also been increased.
 
 - New API-Functions:
  We added 190 new API-functions (which brings our total to 370 functions).


4. General information:
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 API-Guide created by the KPD-Team 1998-2000
 For more information, visit the KPD-Homepage at http://www.allapi.net/
 or the API-Guide website at http://kpdweb.cjb.net/apiguide/index.htm

 You can always send questions, comments or bugs to [e-mail]

 If you want to be informed when updates are available, visit
 http://kpdweb.cjb.net/apiguide/agreg.htm and register.

 The API-Guide download page is located at
 http://kpdweb.cjb.net/apiguide/agdown.htm


4. Disclaimer:
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 Information provided by this program is intended solely to provide general guidance
 on matters of interest for the personal use of the user of this program,
 who accepts full responsibility for its use. It is provided "as is",
 with no guarantee of completeness or accuracy and without warranty of any kind,
 express or implied.