Hi,
I know this is the "Game Making Forum" but I had to ask this question to programmers around because I've gone far enough into programming VB and this is something I've never been able to find a straight answer to.
Anyhow, when I was in junior high school, I had this friend who was a whiz at VB. He would make third party programs for AOL, but would make programs that would cause nuissance to other users (like bomb them with a hundred IM's, create requests for people to receive illegal software in their mail box, report a user to AOL security, etc). A "prog" if that term is still valid.
So anyways, I'm curious to how this works, and why don't people make it for AOL anymore.
Thx,
Oriel
How does API work?
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Hi,
Well if this is a serious question (which I have doubts about). An API (application program interface) is a set of routines that allow you perform a something (yes pretty generic definition).
More practical. Say I want to send you a thousand emails to really piss you off using ms-windows. I could just open outlook express and start typing or I could create a program that ask the windows OS to create an com object that implements the mail engine (of course I can only ask for something that exists i.e. microsoft or someoneelse should have programmed such an com object (such an object does in fact exist))
Now programmatically I would call a number of functions to set sender, receiver, subject and body of the message. Then in a loop I would do this a few thousand times.
A few hours later I would be arrested, my ISP canceled my account and I have to pay for the damage I did. Then I realize it would have been more fun to spent that time on something people enjoy instead of annoy and all would be better of if I would have spent my time on creating games.
Regards, Ron AF Greve
Well if this is a serious question (which I have doubts about). An API (application program interface) is a set of routines that allow you perform a something (yes pretty generic definition).
More practical. Say I want to send you a thousand emails to really piss you off using ms-windows. I could just open outlook express and start typing or I could create a program that ask the windows OS to create an com object that implements the mail engine (of course I can only ask for something that exists i.e. microsoft or someoneelse should have programmed such an com object (such an object does in fact exist))
Now programmatically I would call a number of functions to set sender, receiver, subject and body of the message. Then in a loop I would do this a few thousand times.
A few hours later I would be arrested, my ISP canceled my account and I have to pay for the damage I did. Then I realize it would have been more fun to spent that time on something people enjoy instead of annoy and all would be better of if I would have spent my time on creating games.
Regards, Ron AF Greve
moonlit wrote:Hi,
Well if this is a serious question (which I have doubts about).
It's serious.
Thanks.moonlit wrote:More practical. Say I want to send you a thousand emails to really piss you off using ms-windows. I could just open outlook express and start typing or I could create a program that ask the windows OS to create an com object that implements the mail engine (of course I can only ask for something that exists i.e. microsoft or someoneelse should have programmed such an com object (such an object does in fact exist))
Now programmatically I would call a number of functions to set sender, receiver, subject and body of the message. Then in a loop I would do this a few thousand times.
Tell that to your mom.moonlit wrote: A few hours later I would be arrested, my ISP canceled my account and I have to pay for the damage I did. Then I realize it would have been more fun to spent that time on something people enjoy instead of annoy and all would be better of if I would have spent my time on creating games.
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Was that really necessary?oriel wrote:Tell that to your mom.moonlit wrote: A few hours later I would be arrested, my ISP canceled my account and I have to pay for the damage I did. Then I realize it would have been more fun to spent that time on something people enjoy instead of annoy and all would be better of if I would have spent my time on creating games.
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