• EpeeGnome@feddit.onlineEnglish
    46·
    3 months ago

    This looks fun. I don’t know any Polish but I’ve seen it around, and I used to be kinda fluent in win32 years ago. I’ll have a go. [Edited updated best guess in brackets.]

    spoiler
    • LPCWSTR win32 string type [longpointer(32bit) to c style (null terminated) wide(UTF-16 characters) string]
    • PSZCZYNA Polish
    • WCSLEN win32 type for storing the length of a WCS (whatever that is)
    • WCZESNY Polish
    • LPCTSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style T? string]
    • BYDGOSZCZ Polish
    • WSTRZAS Polish. Tricky because it contains STR, but feels much more Polish than win32.
    • HGDIOBJ Polish? [win32 handle to a GDI object]
    • DOWOD Polish
    • HWINSTA win32. handle for a (static?) window maybe.
    • DLUGOSC Polish
    • LPCSTR win32 string type [longpointer to c style string]
    • DWORD win32 (and any other c based 32bit OS) 4 byte integer type (or 8 bytes in 64 bit OSs) [remembered wrong here. in some systems DWORD changes size with architecture, but in Windows it was 32 bits in win16, and so it is forever]
    • KAL Polish??
    • LPWSTR win32 string type [longpointer to wide string]
    • SZCZECIN Polish
    • BLAD Polish
    • PUHALF Win32 pointer to unsigned 1 byte integer (or 2 byte in 64bit)
    • CHUJ Polish
    • UHALF win32 unsigned 1 byte integer
      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 months ago

        Identifying the windows string types is fun. The letters are supposed to have a meaning. Without looking them up, my guess is:

        LP_ - Length Prepended
        C_STR - C string / null-terminated
        WSTR - “Wide” string / utf-16
        TSTR - I have no idea

        • toddestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          LP is actually “Long Pointer”, which means 32 bits. Why is that called a long pointer? Because that’s what a long pointer was on win16. Same reason a DWORD (double word) is also 32 bits, because a word was 16 bits.

          I haven’t really done much with coding 64 bit Windows applications so I don’t if it’s the same, but Windows 16 bit roots was very obvious in win32.

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            I haven’t done much programming that makes use of the win32 types, but just from tech support and sysadmin type stuff I can confirm that DWORDs are still 32 bits. See them a lot in the Registry.

            Given Window’s (sometimes questionable) attempts to maintain backwards compatibility, and the fact that a lot of the OS functionality and sysadmin tools are, at best, kludge built up in layers over decades on top of the old tools, I would strongly suspect that the win32 types are still the exact same size-wise despite the now 64-bit underlying architecture.

          • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Thanks for correcting me. Considering a long is also 32 bits, a “Long Pointer” being 32 bits makes sense.

        • optional@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I have no idea what the “T” stands for, but TSTR refers to either a Wide or ANSI string depending on whether the UNICODE symbol is defined

  • ExLisperAEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    I’m Polish and I’m hesitating about Hwinsta.

      • ExLisperAEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Aboslutely, but chwinsta could tottaly be in polish dictionary. Sounds like some type of animal feed based on beetroot.

        • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          It definitely would transform to chwiństwa, as that’s how polish words morph. But I see your point.

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Yeah but our phonology is way more strict than polish’s so they just dont work in hungarian sadly. Tho its funny that string is sz which i think just comes from sz being pronounced like s in string in hungarian but in polish its much more logical where sz is pronounced like sh in shack and s is pronounced s.

  • kspatlas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    the missing diacritics slightly annoy me (but it also makes sense considering they would give the polish ones away)

  • excral@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I would just guess Polish for every word that has a Z. Probably not entirely correct but I doubt I could improve much from there

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Here are my guesses compiled from the very little knowledge of polish i have from being hungarian and my general programming knowledge(i have never in my life done any windows programming or even touched it with a 6 foot long yardstick):

    spoiler

    Pszczyna

    Wczesny

    Bydogoszcz

    Dowod

    Hwinsta?(the h looks sus)

    Dlugosc(im not sure sc is possible in polish)

    Kal

    Szczecin

    Blad

    Chuj

    Also a lot of these would have a million diacritics on them no?

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I’m not Polish (not too far away though).

    I think I’d get most of these right, but probably not all. HWINSTA? DOWOD?