Vincent Snijders wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The win32 widgetset can be used (with more or less success) on several
> windows versions, starting from windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, XP
> 64, Vista 64 bits.
>
> Because Microsoft has done such a good job with the 64 port of the 32
> bit winapi to 64 bits and the fpc windows unit abstracts remaining
> differences well, we can really use the win32 widgetset for native
> win64 programs too.
>
> The name is confusing though. People compile for set the OS target to
> win64, but are using the win32 widget set, which is not 32 bit as the
> name suggests. I think it would be good the rename it. I just not sure
> what the new name should be. Any ideas?
>
> The only one I can think of is just "win", but that might be a bit short.
>
> Vincent
"win" is too generic, its like using "windows". GDI referenced naming I
think is too obscure for us mere programmers :-) . How about just
"win32_64".
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