Cheat Engine

[Icos]

Recently I have started reading materials on this subject. I am wondering why there is hardly anyone who talks about this programming branch here. Is it really bad to learn stuff like this, or no one uses it at all?

[UnLmtD]

It is talked in here, if you look at most of the application here (except the one that calculates stuff... or hello world) You will find that API's are used. Maybe there's no topic with "How to use CreateProcess?" since MSDN provides you with the syntax + examples, so people don't come in here with the questions
(or at least it used to be like that) And it would be hard to do stuff with out API's, they help a lot =)

[Icos]

You are right, but very often I see more Delphi related threads than C/C++ threads with the use of API. Seems like this is the delphi world.

[DeltaFlyer]

It's because everyone is too busy making web browsers by dragging a browser control onto a nice form maker and have no will to write any program that involves more than a hundred lines of code.

No it's not bad to learn the Win32 APIs; for most of the programs that interact with the system, you will need it. Creating windows using the Win32 APIs will teach you how the the window system in Windows works, and that's definitely a plus.

[Ouch!]

The reason there is hardly any questions is because everything you will ever need is on MSDN.

Win32 API is an interesting topic, and one which all c/c++ programmers using windows (nearly everyone) will eventually get around to learning/using.

[oib111]

Omg, thank you deltaflyer. My only objection to that statement is that most long codes that over a hundred (the ones I see) can be simplified much shorter. But other than that I agree wit u.

[g3nuin3]

http://winprog.net/tutorial/