## Windows FFI Example Project

This project contains a simple example program that demonstrates how a Microsoft Windows application can be written in Dylan by using the Dylan libraries that provide a Foreign Function Interface to the Windows API.

Note that because this example contains resources it requires the Windows resource compiler, rc.exe and associated files, in order to compile successfully. The resource compiler is available for download from the Microsoft website as part of the "Microsoft Platform SDK build environment". At the time of this writing the URL is http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/sdk/sdktools.asp.

The entire program is in the file "example.dylan", but it also uses a few additional files for defining resources used. The program simply displays a window that includes examples of drawing text, shapes, and lines, and has a menu bar from which an "About" box can be displayed from the "Help" menu and the program can be exited from the "File" menu. While the program doesn't do much, it does illustrate the essential structure of a Windows program and should be useful as a starting point for writing real applications.

Note that many of the menu items are not intended to work; they are just there for illustrative purposes. In particular, the "Contents" and "Search for Help On..." menu items invoke the standard Windows Help facility (WinHelp) to look for a file called EXAMPLE.HLP which is not provided with the example.