Why are some GDI functions named ExtXxx instead of XxxEx?

By convention, an enhanced version of a function Xxx is called XxxEx , but there are many GDI functions that don't follow this conventions, most notably ExtTextOut , which should have been named TextOutEx under the XxxEx convention. Why don't the GDI Read More......(read more)

Written by The Old New Thing : History on May 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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