***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] [SPAM] Re: Re: imlib2

[Keith Marshall <keithmarshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 02 May 2008 15:17, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> LoadLibrary()
> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms886736.aspx
> >
> > Hmm.  That's the first time I've ever seen it stated "be sure to
> > use backslashes, not slashes".  Does LoadLibrary() *really* fail if
> > you ignore this advice?  If so, then it isn't consistent with the
> > normal behaviour of the Windows API.
>
> It's consistent with CreateProcess[1].

I couldn't see any explicit statement, on that page, that said you 
couldn't use forward slashes as an alternative to backslashes.  FWIW, 
I've never encountered the slightest problem with doing just that, and 
I don't normally ever use backslashes when I specify a path name--it's 
just too ugly for words to describe it.

However, I must also confess that I don't think I've ever called 
CreateProcess directly, preferring the simpler syntax of spawn(), (via 
a wrapper to correctly preserve whitespace in the arguments).

> > BTW, the link you provided relates specifically to WinCE, but the
> > same statement appears in MSDN's more general Windows documentation
> > too.
>
> Is this one[2] better?

Yep.  I think it's the same one I was looking at, when I said "the same 
statement appears in MSDN's more general Windows documentation too".

Regards,
Keith.

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