[Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: Win 10 IOT Core

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 10/19/2015 01:33 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> 
>> We can at least conclude that there is a lot of confusion about what it is 
>> and what it is not;
>> 
>> But seeing that it is Microsoft, this does not come as a surprise...
>> There are more vendors at work than actual programmers in that company.
>> 
> M$ claim that "in future there only will one Windows: Windows 10". I gather 
> that this should mean that there is  a common API specification (but 
> obviously "smaller" versions provide just parts of same, but no different 
> specs for the same stuff, any more).
>
> Hence to me it does make perfect sense, that (free) Windows 10 IOT runs 
> service applications normally (via the "basic no-GUI" WinAPI) but does not 
> have the "GDI winapi", and hence is no competitor too the (paid) Desktop 
> Windows 10 versions.

Technically speaking, I read once that the user32.dll and advapi32.dll 
may not be used directly in a Windows Runtime application. 
Since the service manager calls are in the latter, I assumed 
that a service application cannot work.

Probably the information I read was inaccurate or it has changed meanwhile.

>
> As a result I still think that a "DirectX" version of fpGUI or CustomDrawn 
> that runs on IOT should be doable.

How do you know that DirectX is part of IOT ?

Michael.