The second book only really looks at making a simple window, then drawing on it with GDI. Its not a Win32 reference type book (Though it does explain the odd WinAPI function), its a game programming book in C++, totally different from what I think you want.
I just used MSDN, google, and played about with Win32 writing userlibs for Blitz+... So see if you can find any free stuff, and just play around with it before splashing out.
This took me three seconds to find on Google:-
http://www.functionx.com/win32/index.htm
Dabz
I just used MSDN, google, and played about with Win32 writing userlibs for Blitz+... So see if you can find any free stuff, and just play around with it before splashing out.
This took me three seconds to find on Google:-
http://www.functionx.com/win32/index.htm
Dabz