Re: Shell-Coding tutorials

A tutorial describing contruction of a simple shell would be possible;
window hooks and responding to messages, maintaining a window list, etc..=
.

I could be tempted to do this if anyone sees a need for it?

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> Ravi/Shell-Shocked wrote:
>
>> There's a huge demand for shell-coding tutorials. If one of you
>> kind folks would like to write one, or a series I'd be much
>> obliged.
>
> Could you tell us more what is needed? Depending on the shell (speaking
> for LS here), the shell specific part is usually the smallest one. The
> bigger part are the programming language and especiall win32
> programming: windowprocs, gdi stuff and the like. Those are not unique
> to shells and pretty hard to teach in a simple tutorial: way too much
> stuff.
>
> E.g. a LS module needs about 3 things: the two exported functions
> (initModule, quitModule), adding bangs (which is a simple callback of
> which win32 API itself has literally hundreds) and the API for getting
> values from step.rc
>
> Alex



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