BenoitRen

Sure, as soon as I get Nathan Lineback to explain to me how to install the newest TCP/IP stack included with Dial-up Networking Upgrade 1.4. IMO, those sites can go to hell. No site should require a third-party plug-in to be viewed. Aye. If it is untested, it can't be deemed unstable. Isn't the same true for Win98?

Why don't you link your weblog post while you're at it. I am of the same opinion, by the way.

Or User Agent Switcher.

Why is this a problem? You shouldn't use that piece of s*** in the first place. The amount of IE-only sites is always dwindling, and there really aren't enough of them to worry about it. Besides, you can spoof your user agent string to pretend you're IE with any alternative web browser if necessary. This actually sounds a lot like IE4 for Windows 95. I call FUD.

No, I just think that you should stop whining if you have no relevant info to share.

Don't like the thread? Don't read it.

K-Meleon is also based on Gecko. It'll stop working just the same with Gecko 1.9 on Win9x.

Urgh, stop harrassing the forum with this question! If someone is up to it, he/she will come forth by himself/herself!

Bad comparison. What you mention is ancient, and is no longer sufficient for today. Hard drives, however, are another story. Not everyone needs 100+ GB. FAT works best on drives that aren't huge. You will have smaller clusters. It's more efficient and faster that way. That's relative. I'm happily getting by with a 6.2 GB HDD.

Maybe it's your firewall, or something? You know, just saying "it won't work" doesn't tell us much. What exactly happens? If there's an error message, what does it say? What have you already tried to solve the problem? Stuff like that. We're not psychic.

Using InitCommonControls() generated an error that the function was not known. LoadLibrary("riched32.dll"); worked, though! Thank you very much, both of you.

Eh, they're just anti-Win9x fanboys. They complain about code not being easy to read, etc. Since Microsoft ended support for Win98 and WinME a year ago, they thought the time was ripe to remove the support.

I must not have looked well enough, because I even have a Richedit.h in my Borland installation, which is 1/3 the size of the one in the SDK. Indeed, CreateWindowEx returns 0. So does GetLastError(), even after using the header files. I tried with both versions I got. Here's the relevant code: hRichEdit = CreateWindowEx(0, "RichEdit", "", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL | ES_MULTILINE, 0, 0, 200, 100, hwnd, (HMENU)IDC_MAIN_EDIT, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL); ltoa(GetLastError(), errStr, 10); if(hRichEdit == NULL) { MessageBox(NULL, errStr, "Error!", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK); return 0; } Really? Someone I know from the Netherlands didn't know until I talked about it recently. I wouldn't mind the limit if it wasn't for my brother's download habits. There's enough for the rest of the household.

I got the code right, but the RichEdit control creation is failing. I really need that library and header file... I would download the entire SDK if I had to, but my brother has been downloading way too much porn and watched too many YouTube movies, so our connection is capped.

It's not about Firefox, it's about Gecko. Gecko. GECKO. Gecko 1.9 will bring a lot of new things to the table, the most important being a better rendering engine. Security vulnerabilities are in Gecko, Mozilla will be responsible for security, as always. This doesn't need to be a concern for the people who want to maintain a Win9x-compatible build.

Huh? You can't log in with MSN Messenger 7? Well, have you tried MSN Messenger 6 or 5?

Interesting. Thanks! That helps a lot. Will toy around with it.

Thanks. There doesn't seem to be a Rich Edit Control library in iBLDENV, though. I looked in iCOM and iOTHER too, but they don't have any either.

I'll need the DLL throughout the entire program, so I think it's best to use implicit linking. Yeah, I've read that you can use a .lib, but also that you can use a header file to expose the necessary functions. My Borland C++ is old, though, and doesn't have libraries for riched32.dll or riched20.dll The Internet doesn't seem to have it, either.

There wouldn't be a point. Windows 98 and 95 are very similar at their core, being different snapshots of the Win9x codebase.

I've followed this tutorial on the Windows API, and would like to make a simple Notepad alternative, using the RTF control, in C. I have Borland C++ 4.52 installed, and downloaded a Win32 API Reference from Borland. The problem is that I haven't been able to find out how to load a DLL and use its functions. Anyone know where I might find a guide to it? Thanks in advance.

I was bored, so I figured I could continue with the documentation. I got updated on the state of things by the developer that offered help last time. Almost everything got its Win9x support code ripped out. At this point, the shim library idea that was proposed a year ago likely wouldn't do the trick. The way to go would be to make a Win9x-only build. To do this, I'd have to go through bonsai and revert the changes. The real work will be making Cairo, the new rendering front-end, compatible with Win9x. I have the impression that emulating the SetWorldTransform API would be crucial in doing this. I still haven't got room for my new PC to do all this on, though...

Nope, no progress, sorry. Exams keep bugging me, and I'm always distracted by other pet projects of mine.

Get yourself Windows 95 OSR 2.5, and strip it down by following these instructions. The result is a clean install with no IE, with plenty of free hard drive space (between 100 and 200 MB, including the necessary updates). You'll need DCOM95, WinSock 2 (make sure to install TCP/IP first), and eventually a newer comctl32.dll. For your laptop, I would recommend K-Meleon. Preferably K-Meleon 1.02 (with bmpmenu.dll and rebarmenu.dll deleted to remove incompatibilities). It's a little outdated, though, I wonder if there's a 1.02 that's been updated to the latest 1.8.0.x Gecko for download without having to do it yourself. This might sound like some work, but believe me, it's worth it.

Yeah, just look at the ReactOS people. 10 years of work, and it only sort of works.