Where to start? & Where are Strings?

[Chris!]

Hi there!

I'm new to ROS and i've downloaded the sources and RosBE and compiled all.
Where should I start now? I want to learn how ROS is coded. Should I learn with Trial-And-Error-Method or what?
My second question is the following:
Where are system strings located? In the shell32 the kernel version is loaded from a string and i want to know where i can edit these system specific strings.

Thanks in advance
Chris

PS: Please excuse my faults, because i'm a 15-years old german teenie (but I can code in C/C++ )

[danielbarry]

Hi,

If you mean strings, as in variables, they have to be opened in the source code, or opened in the file that opened that file. There might be a little tracing back, but it should refer back to the place it got the variable from, if it is in another file. Try doing a keyword search on the compiler for the varaible.

P.S. I'm 14

Daniel

[Chris!]

I mean with String something like REACTOS_KERNEL_VERSION or so. (Look at ShellAboutA(...) in shell32_main.c)
I've searched through some *.rc-Files (en-US), but found only application-specific strings.

[danielbarry]

I have just joined, and don't know what it runs like, how the code looks, or anything. So I will take a look tonight, and with any luck I can tell you some time tomorrrow. I've got to come off a little while, but will be back in about 10-20 minutes.

Hope I can help you,

Dan

[Chris!]

I'm sorry because I have to go.
I'll take a look in this topic on monday or maybe tomorrow!
But thanks man!

[danielbarry]

Alright then mate.

I'll get back to tou when I can...

Daniel

[GoBusto]

The forum isn't the best place to ask this. Join the IRC channel and talk with the development team themselves.

http://www.reactos.org/en/community_irc.html

[Chris!]

I have the problem, that my IRC-Port is blocked!
I'm not home, because I haven't internet there, so I'm surfing in the school.
(Do you know any web-based IRC solution?)

I have solved my question on my own:
If I want to know where (e.g.) KERNEL_MAJOR_VERSION is declared I only have to redeclare this literal in any file. E.g. in "ntoskrnl" per "#define KERNEL_MAJOR_VERSION" and while compiling I get an error or warning like: "Symbol redefined. Last definition in ...\...\qwerty.c.

I hope you've understood my solution

Thanks again
Chris

[Lone_Rifle]

http://www.mibbit.com

[Christoph_vW]

include\reactos\version.h