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Subject: Toolbars and Status Lines 
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:19:54 +0000


In article <1992Dec22.220402.2865@cis.ohio-state.edu> guzman@python.cis.ohio-state.edu writes:

> I finally get MDI under control, and now everywhere I look apps have toolbars
> and status lines.
> 
> I have seen several inquiries on these subjects here, so would our resident
> guru please post the available information?

I'm not the guru but I did ask the same question recently and received a
reply from schung@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (dont go pestering him though) and a
copy of toolbar.zip from the /pub/pc/win3/programr direcotry at
ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
 
> Hopefully, locations of C++ libraries :) that encapsulate these functions into
> easily pluggable components. Commercial or PD

The documentation that is on the ZIP file explains what restrictions there
are on usage. Sources there too.
 
> That, and/or the complete "how to" guide for t-bars and s-lines.

Status lines are discussed in a document from the "developer network" I got
a copy from ftp.uu.net somewhere in the /vendor/microsoft directory tree.
 
> Thanks all!

No problem. Thanks to someone else's help I can offer a little assitance.
 
Regards, Trevor.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Location of windebug.dll
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:46:57 GMT

TDW complains about not being able to load the file 'windebug.dll'
when I try to debug in Windows.  I copied the file from my 
\borlandc\bin directory to my \windows and \windows\system dirs, I
cannot think of anything else besides the realization that this file
might be bad in which case I would have to re-install the compiler.

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From: dodd@dodd.UUCP (Mike Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Menu in TDialog 'window' creating background strip under it.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:52:56 GMT
Reply-To: dodd!dodd@seq.uncwil.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: Not
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I am programming in OWL using a TDialog for my MainWindow.  I have a menu
in it, when that menu is 'attached' it leaves a Strip about 2 pixels high
under the menu_strip itself.  This Strip contains whatever was on the screen
at that spot, and when the window is moved so goes the 'graphics' inlaid in 
the strip.

Is this a programming bug in Windows, Borland, or me?

My solution so far is to eliminate the menu and rely totally on buttons
for interaction.

I have tried 'stretching' the dialog box upward, but when the program is
executed and the menu-strip is attached the gap is still there.
	
			    -Mike

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From: smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal)
Subject: Use of ES_CENTER in OWL EditBox style
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:24:43 GMT

I'm trying to create an editbox with the following style:

Edit1->Attr.Style|=ES_READONLY | ES_CENTER;


where Edit1 is a pointer to type TEdit in the Borland OWL.
The compiler is 3.1.  I get the proper READONLY behavior, but
the strings I put in the Editbox (upon allocation with new)
are not centered.  I also tried adding the ES_CENTER to some
of the example programs like edittest.cpp and was unsuccessful. 


Am I compiling with some wrong flag or is this a known problem?

The reason I want to use an Editbox instead of a TStatic object
is because I wasn't pleased with the positioning of the centered
text in my Static child window.

Thanks for any help,

Stuart Lichtenthal smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: DebugOutput() probs : was Re: MSC 7.0 windows debug mode and 'Cant read from device AUX'
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:04:16 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK

In article <1992Dec16.135938.21596@panix.com>, rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
|> In <1992Dec15.114345.8779@titan.inmos.co.uk> jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk
|> (Jeremy Thorp) writes:
|> 
|> >I have NEVER got DebugOutput to work. TRACE (C++), and OutputDebugString
|> >work fine, but not DebugOutput. I am using DbWin.
|> >
|> >Could someone give me an example that is known to work (with configuration)?
|> 
|> The main thing is that you need a line in your .DEF file that says:
|> 
|>   IMPORTS		_DebugOutput=KERNEL._DebugOutput
|> 
|> Also, this is a Windows v3.1 routine, so it won't work if you have
|> Windows 3.0.  I'm not sure why this import is needed.  It is a documented
|> function of the Windows 3.1 API, so you really shouldn't need to do this,
|> but you do.  Also, the docs don't seem to reference to DBF_APPLICATION.
|> Perhaps they simply expect everyone to use TRACE().

I have tried (on previous occasions) the IMPORTS thing, and it enables the program to link ok.

However, I have NEVER got DebugOutput to actually output anything. I am using the DBWin
program provided in the SDK to display messages. OutputDebugString, and TRACE both work,
DebugPut doesn't - ever!

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

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From: scheurer@lithnext.epfl.ch (Marco Scheurer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Need BMP format
Keywords: bitmap, bmp
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:22:19 GMT
Reply-To: scheurer@lithnext.epfl.ch

The subject says it all. Thanks.
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From: kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: OWL an ListBoxes
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:06:09 GMT
	<mills.724696382@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>
Organization: MITEL Public Switching, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: mills@athena.lkg.dec.com's message of 18 Dec 92 16:33:02 GMT

In article <mills.724696382@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com> mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills) writes:

| pjsmith@iastate.edu (Phil J Smith) writes:
| 
| >I have a listbox in a dialog box that is supposed to display a directory list.
| >The problem is that I can't get it to display the directory until I click in
| >it.  I would like the directory to be displayed when the dialog box is opened.
| >I have tried SendDlgItemMsg(id,LBN_SETFOCUS,0,0) but that does not seem to 
| >work.  Any ideas?
| 
| Create a virtual function for WM_INITDIALOG and initialize your box there.

Actually, the virtual function setupwindow effectively does this for
you. Setupwindow is called for any kind of window (including dialogs
loaded as resources) just before display.

Kim
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From: richard.fink@ggcs.org (Richard Fink) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Help needed
Date: 27 Dec 92 13:37:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Golden Gate Computer Society BBS - Marin, CA - 415-927-1216
Reply-To: richard.fink@ggcs.org (Richard Fink) 

HBC>  I used MSC/7.0 and have get a problem.  When I used PWB and tried to
HBC>compiled a c program, I got the error mesage
HBC>  R6907 not enough extended memory on exec.

You're probably giving too much extended memory to your disk cache.  Of course
you must be using 386MAX, the latest QEMM with DPMI support, or running under
Win31.  This must be the case or your error message would be different.

Check who else is using extended memory.  If you have a 2mb system you may have
to severly reduce any disk cache memory use.  That's tight space to work in.

-Ric
                                                                          
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: guzman@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (jonatan guzman)
Subject: Opinions: Borland Paradox Engine
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:35:39 GMT

Borland has recently sent me a certificate for the Paradox Engine 3.0 & Data-
base Frameworks 3.0

I would like to know what kind of experiences y'all have had with this highly
touted (by Borland) package.

Is it worth the price ($210.00)? Does it really make your C++ programming life
easier? How viable is it in light of Microsoft's (et al) standard (I forget the
name...ODBC is it?)?

I'd like to hear recommendations for similar packages (i.e. dbase access
libraries in C++) as well.

Thanks
	Jon -- guzman@cis.ohio-state.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: mpd48941@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Duff)
Subject: Basic Window Problems
Reply-To: duff@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:17:58 GMT

I'm having a bit of trouble getting started with windows programming, and
it bugs me quite a bit.  Can any of you who know PLEASE mail me your
method of opening a SIMPLE window up?  All I want is the basic necessities
and I can (hopefully) branch off from there and get something working.
BTW, I am using (trying to use) BC++ 3.1.
Thanks for any help you give.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: knight@santafe.santafe.edu (Bob Knight)
Subject: TDW breakpoints
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 17:49:04 GMT
Organization: Santa Fe Institute


Hi - I am attempting to use TDW (Borland's window debugger) to look at
calls to LoadString in user.exe.  I get the first call breakpointed fine,
but I am unable to get subsequent breakpoints.  I'm a novice Windows 
hacker, so any advice will be gratefully accepted.

Please email directly to me, so as not to clutter the list.

Thanks,
Bob
knight@santafe.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: mcneillb@cuug.ab.ca (Blake Mcneill 281-9391)
Subject: Landscape Mode Printing
Keywords: Landscape Printing Problems 
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:50:37 GMT

I have a problem concerning printing in Landscape mode in
Windows 3.1 in a program that I am writing with Borland C++
version 3.1.  What is frustrating about this is that
everything works when I print Portrait mode but nothing
prints under Landscape mode (Laserjet IIIsi or Roland 9
pin).  I'm under the impression that there is no difference
in my code for Portrait and Landscape modes since windows
handles the print orientation.  Could I be wrong??  It
wouldn't be the first time!  I have tried some other source
code (DLGDEMO4 from PC-Magazine July 1992 by Ray Duncan, for
example) and have found that these programs also fail to
print in Landscape mode.

If I use landscape mode the window does not refresh from the
print dialog box and the program hangs on the EndPage
function until I cancel the print job.  Nothing is sent to
the printer.  Something is sent to the Print Spooler (a
StartDoc or StartPage) but no record of anything to
physically print.  If I click anywhere other then the cancel
print job button in my abort print dialog, I might have to
cntrl-alt-del the program to kill it.  I know that my
printer works with Landscape mode since NotePad and other
applications print Landscape mode just fine.  Could my
problem be something that I'm missing or could it be some
undocumented function or what?  

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Blake McNeill

@cuugnet.cuug.ab.ca

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: Re: DebugOutput() probs : was Re: MSC 7.0 windows debug mode and 'Cant read from device AUX'
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:26:16 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <1992Dec22.114159.19769@titan.inmos.co.uk> jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp) writes:

>The application check box is checked.

Sorry, I should have assumed that you did, but couldn't think of what else
the problem could be.

>I have a point in my code that calls OutputDebugString, DebugOutput,
>and then OutputDebugString again (3 successive lines).  The
>OutputDebugString strings are displayed by DBWin, but the DebugOutput
>string is not. I am using DBF_TRACE as the first parameter to
>DebugOutput

Ah ha.  You should use DebugOutput(DBF_TRACE | DBF_APPLICATION, ...).
That will do it.  It's not in the docs, but seems to work.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu (David O'Donnell)
Subject: Visual Basic - Common Dialog Usage
Followup-To: atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu
Summary: Using Win3.1 Comm. Dlgs in VB1.0
Keywords: visual basic
Organization: Enhanced Cybernetic Logic Operating Systems Group
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:37:40 GMT

I'm using Visual Basic 1.0 to develop an application to manage VM Notebooks
(this is a teach-me application :) and would like to make use of either
Windows 3.1's Common Dialogs or Borland's Custom Dialogs. I would appreciate
any assistance from VB programmers on the most efficient way to go about
this. I'm not new to programming in general but I am new to Windows-hosted
programming, and many of the details are downright confusing.

Please send all replies to my e-mail address.

David B. O'Donnell
atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu
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From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 vs Microsoft C/C++ 7.0
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:44:17 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

dfa@rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au (David Abbott) writes:

>You want some bugs,  just take a look at the file cl-7-bug.zip in the
>c directory of the SIMTEL20 msdos archives.  It has half a dozen or so 
>small demonstration files which show up serious bugs in MSC 7.0 and
>6.0.  According to the author,  all the demonstration files work with 
>C 6.01,  none work with C 7.0,  and some don't work with C 6.0. That's
>right,  some of the bugs in 6.0 that were fixed in 6.01 are back again
>in 7.0.  That sort of thing is unforgivable really. 

It seems they like doing the same job twice, but end up doing it only
half.

>By the way,  is that "get an update only if you can document a bug" a
>general Microsoft policy,  or somehting peculiar to Microsoft
>Netherlands?  Perhaps someone from Microsoft may care to comment!

I think I am going to contact them myself and try again.

>I havn't been following this thread,  but let me say I'm not trying
>to promote Borland C++ either. 
>Any company releasing a huge program like that with such a pathetic
>installation program needs to re-organise its priorities just a
>little.  I keep thinking they've got to do it better soon,  but alas
>each new release uses the same  old "you work out exactly how
>much space your selections will take,  then feed in every disk
>(whether its needed or not) and I'll install it for you but if you're
>wrong and end up just 1K short of space,  I'll delete everything for
>you and you can start all over again" program! I could go on and on
>about all the deficiencies in Borland's install program but you've
>probably got the general idea by now!

OK, I have installed Borland products while I had enough space.
But I would like to know the other problems you had, I personally
didn't have any troubles with it. Well, not quite true, we
wanted to install Borland Windows groups but we had to follow the
whole procedure again to figure out how they had done it.
Now we know and we can make Borland Windows groups quick enough.



Richard.
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From: misra@fsg.com (Mark Israel - Fusion Boston)
Subject: Re: Is here anyone using Visual Basic 2.0 ?
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:23:32 GMT

I am using VB 2.0 for prototypes and also find it very buggy.  I will ellaborate.  It crashes while editing and debugging (lost lots of work that way).  The
Grid control doesn't repaint well (Looks horrible).  It corrupts memory during
execution, especially with compiled code.  I don't get any UAE's since 
Microsoft renamed them but it crashes hare sometimes taking windows with it.

I head it is less buggy than Access.

I feel like I am a VB 2.0 beta tester.  Do they give free upgrades to testers?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: shah@cherry.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Shahrin Abdullah)
Subject: SQL Windows, Gupta
Keywords: SQL Windows
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:23:48 GMT

Hi there! Could anyone tell me about the features of SQL Window by Gupta.
I had used relational database on Ingres before. What I need to know is 
how high is the learning curve and how difficult it is to do programming
in it? Thanks for any info.

Shahrin
E-mail shah@iss.nus.sg
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal)
Subject: Animation libraries for Windows
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:27:13 GMT

Dear Windows Programmers:

I'd like to fool around with animation of 3-D figures under
Windows.  I'm looking for source code if it exists.  I'd like
to be able to do the following:

Make a number like "5" into a 3-D figure and then zoom in on it
from different angles or rotate it around the three axes at
different speeds.  It should also some mechanism for shading
when the light is coming from a specified direction.

Is there is a good book for such routines?  Books or software
with good documentation would be great.  

Stuart Lichtenthal
smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: pebo@sunatb.UUCP (Peter Bodifee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: How to print bitmaps from clipboard?
Keywords: print bitmaps
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: pebo@sunatb.atb.bso.nl
Organization: BSO/Automation Technology Breda B.V., The Netherlands

I would like to print a window or the whole screen on
a postscript printer. From the MS-Windows reference manual
I read that this can be achived by PrintScreen or Alt-PrintScreen.
This will put a bitmap on the clipboard. But there is no "print"
on the clipboard menus. I have pasted the contents of the clipboard
in Arts & Letters (3.11), but this takes ages to print bitmaps from
Arts & letters! A&L takes 5 minutes to print the bitmap of a full screen
dump (on a Dell 486D/33) and the printer takes apprx. 20 minutes 
(is a Dataproducts LZR1260).

Is there an alternative? Any tools to print clipboard files?
Or am I on the wrong track? Any help appreciated!

Please e-mail to me, I will post a summary.
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From: jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: DebugOutput() probs : was Re: MSC 7.0 windows debug mode and 'Cant read from device AUX'
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:41:59 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK

In article <1992Dec21.174914.24388@panix.com>, rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
|> In <1992Dec21.130416.10774@titan.inmos.co.uk> jeremy@cheetah.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp) writes:
|> 
|> >|> The main thing is that you need a line in your .DEF file that says:
|> >|> 
|> >|>   IMPORTS		_DebugOutput=KERNEL._DebugOutput
|> >|> 
|> >|> Also, this is a Windows v3.1 routine, so it won't work if you have
|> >|> Windows 3.0.  I'm not sure why this import is needed.  It is a documented
|> >|> function of the Windows 3.1 API, so you really shouldn't need to do this,
|> >|> but you do.  Also, the docs don't seem to reference to DBF_APPLICATION.
|> >|> Perhaps they simply expect everyone to use TRACE().
|> >
|> >I have tried (on previous occasions) the IMPORTS thing, and it
|> >enables the program to link ok.
|> >
|> >However, I have NEVER got DebugOutput to actually output anything. I
|> >am using the DBWin program provided in the SDK to display messages.
|> >OutputDebugString, and TRACE both work, DebugPut doesn't - ever!
|> >
|> >Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
|> 
|> In dbwin, do you have the "application" box checked under trace in the
|> settings dialog box?  If this isn't checked, nothing will be produced.
|> You don't need to provide the name of the application, but make sure
|> that the "Application" box is checked.

The application check box is checked.

I have a point in my code that calls OutputDebugString, DebugOutput, and then
OutputDebugString again (3 successive lines).
The OutputDebugString strings are displayed by DBWin, but the
DebugOutput string is not. I am using DBF_TRACE as the first parameter to DebugOutput

Yours, perplexed but still hopeful,

Jeremy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)