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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools

In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools roger@oit.itd.umich.edu (Roger Espinosa) writes:

>Okay, so the local campus store (complete with discounts) finally had
>Visual Basic for Windows on display. I always knew that the Professional
>Edition came with some "extras," but was never sure *what*. The DOS versions
>seem to differ mainly in terms of ISAM support, as far as I could tell.

>But the Standard and Professional Windows packages seem *really* different.
>I saw nothing about "multimedia" on the Standard box, but a lot of requirements
>on the Professional edition -- that plus the email, comm tools, etc.

  Essentially the Pro version adds some controls: a comm tool, a "gas guage",
  some 3d controls, a "multimedia" control, ISAM (?), a few others.  Also
  a MS knowledgebase help file (somewhat useful though a good VB book is 
  better), the Win 3.1 help compiler, custom control documentation, and the
  Setup kit (use the standard installer for your own apps).

  The extra controls are nice if you need them, many of the extra controls
  can be "simulated" by extra coding with the Standard edition.  The 
  multimedia stuff is available by writing VB code to access the Windows API.
  The biggest difficulty with doing your own is finding documentation for
  API...

>Anyway, can someone offer some advice as to which edition would be best
>for doing multimedia application on an *Ultimedia* machine? With all IBM-type
>multimedia hardware (which, I'm guessing, could mean that the built-ins 
>in the Professional box won't help me diddly...)

  I would think the IBM hardware is installed the same as everybody else
  does it - by drivers installed in the Windows control panel, in which
  case VB would access it as a virtual device (just like any other multimedia
  add-in)...  Someone correct me here if I'm wrong.

>There's quite a bit of price difference, and I guess I'm not sure if 
>you can *do* everything with the Standard box (and the Professional just 
>lets you at it faster), or you *need* the Professional package to do
>multimedia (sound, images, video, etc...)

  Essentially you are the best judge of your needs.. You can pretty much do
  everything with the Standard Edition, but the Pro edition does have some
  nice bonuses.  It depends on what you plan to do with it, if it's just
  for one project for a class I would save the cash, if you are developing
  a great deal then the pro version will save some time.

>Thanks!
>Roger
 
  Hope this helps...
  - Galen -
  galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,misc.forsale.computers.other
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: WANTED: Doc-To-Help and Robo-Help Help Authoring Tools
Organization: Mail Group
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:06:24 GMT

I want to buy two Microsoft Windows help-authoring tools: Doc-To-Help
and Robo-Help.  If you have either for sale please contact me by mail.

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: frankg@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM (Frank H Goovaerts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Windows Prototyping tools
Keywords: WIN WINDOWS
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:05:32 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.

I'd like to here some comments from people that have succesfully used
Windows Prototyping tools ,in particular CASEW and WindowsMaker.  Both of
these retain in one way or another the code you decide to add, from what I
understand.

Send comments to frankg@tekig7.pen.tek.com.

Frank Goovaerts
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: avinogra@empire.cce.cornell.edu (Alex Vinogradov)
Subject: Resource Compiler question
Organization: Cornell Cooperative Extension
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:41:11 GMT


I am getting a strange RC warning while trying to execute  RC my-program.RES :

-----
RC : warning RW4005: Segment 3 (offset 0802) contains a
     relocation record pointing to the automatic
     data segment.  This will cause the program to crash
     if the instruction being fixed up is executed in a
     multi-instance application.  If this fixup is
     necessary, the program should be restricted to run
     only a single instance.
-----

The program is compiled as large-model application (I think that's relevant,
because I strated getting the warning after I switched from small model).

Does anyone have any idea what exactly this warning means?  And how do I locate
line of code using the info given in the warning message (i've tried .MAP
file, but I could not find relevant info there) ?

Please e-mail all replies

Thanks a lot,
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------
Alex Vinogradov
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Electronic Technology Group
avinogra@empire.cce.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: Gunnar.Sylthe@nsd.uib.no
Subject: re: Yacc/Lex for Windows?
Reply-To: Gunnar.Sylthe@nsd.uib.no
Organization: Norwegian Social Science Data Services
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 07:59:43 GMT

In article <2515@gandalf.intel.com> ckwang@hobbie.intel.com (Chih-Kan Wang) writes:
>I am looking for Yacc and Lex for Windows programming.  I know there are
>byacc, bison, and flex for DOS. But do they work if I incorporate the code
>they generate into a Windows application or Windows DLL?
>
>Do such tools exist (commercially or in public domain)? Any information is
>greatly appreciated.

We have recently purchased PCYACC 4.0 from Abraxas Software, Inc. I haven't
had the time to try it out with Windows yet, but according to the docs
this version works with Windows 3.1, standard and DPMI.

The package also comes with PCLEX, and the "Professional" version (which we
bought) comes with complete grammars, lexical analyzers and symbol table
management for several languages including: 

	ANSI C
	K&R C
	ISO Pascal
	FORTRAN
	dBASE III/Plus and IV
	SQL
	C++ (1.0 and 2.0)
	Smalltalk-80
	APPLE HyperTalk
	C&M Prolog
	YACC
	LEX
	FORTRAN-77
	COBOL
	ADA
	VHDL
	GW-BASIC
	SGML
	ASN
	RPG
	PL1
	DCA
	POSTSCRIPT

The DOS Professional version is $495,-; Personal version (only ANSI C grammar
included) $249,-.

Contact:   ABRAXAS Software, Inc.
           5530 SQ Kelly Ave.
           Portland, OR97201
           USA

           Order phone: 1-800-347-5214
           Fax: (503)244-8375

I'm in no way affiliated with Abraxas, and, like I said, have not done much
with PCYACC yet, but at least the first impression of the package is good.


--Gunnar

+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Gunnar Sylthe                                       Phone: +47-5-212125
  Norwegian Social Science Data Services              Fax:   +47-5-960660
  Hans Holmboes gate 22                   Email: Gunnar.Sylthe@nsd.uib.no
  N-5007 Bergen
  NORWAY
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: brehonyt@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Looking for 32 bit ANSI-C compiler for Win3.x
Date: 27 Jan 93 15:57:48 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland




I'm looking for a 32 bit ANSI-C compatible compiler for DOS/Win 3.x. I 
know there are a few on the market. What are they and which are the best
(IYHO) ?. Also which have facilities analagous to the Quickwin facility 
supported by Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. 

Basically what I want to do is to create a 32 bit Win 3.1 program from 
an character mode, 32 bit ANSI C system.

Any comments, advice , etc would be appreciated. Thanks.

Tom Brehony.
Email : brehonyt@ul.ie 
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools:2249 comp.lang.c++:19968
From: westes@smurf.sti.com (Will Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Zinc vs. zApp C++ Class Libraries: want comparison
Date: 26 Jan 1993 19:38:50 -0800
Organization: Mail Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com

We are thinking of using a commercial C++ library for an upcoming
project, and Zinc and zApp are the two leading contenders.  I would
like to hear from someone who has actual project experience using
*both* products (if such a person exists...).  Can you give the
strengths and weaknesses of each, and which:

-	did you prefer to use?
-	had more capability (and in which areas)?
-	was more extensible once your design runs past the
	capabilities of the class library

My impression of Zinc, at least, is that it would be a good fit to an
MIS product, but I found it hard to believe that you could build a
robust commercial-quality application on top of it.  zApp's demo
program seems quite poor, but it seems to get good reviews.  

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: jonka@microsoft.com (Jonathan Kagle)
Subject: Re: MSC700 PWB resize exiting VX_server
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:16:26 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan26.074859.1@eig.unige.ch> knispel@eig.unige.ch writes:
>I am in trouble with Microsoft's C700 VX_server. I run PBW in a Windowed
>DOS session, and if I call either the debugger or the Run command for a
>Windows application (through VX_server), it restores me always PWB in
>DOS full screen mode.

WXServer defaults to returning to a full-screen DOS session. To make it return
to a windowed DOS session, use the /W command-line option.

For example:

  WX /W MYPROG 

will run MYPROG and will return to a windowed DOS prompt upon completion.

     Hope this helps,

       -Jonathan


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: andrew@cursci.demon.co.uk (Andrew Trotman)
Subject: Microsoft C/C++ Patches... what do they fix?
Distribution: world
Organization: Current Drugs
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:48:29 +0000

I keep seeing notices of people requesting various patches to Microsoft
C/C++ version 7.  I would like to know what these patches fix.

Thanks
Andrew
andrew@cursci.co.uk

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: stu@av8r.Tandem.com (Stuart Phillips)
Subject: PrintIt! V1.2 - Text file viewer and Print formatter
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:40:51 GMT

PrintIt! V1.2
-------------

PrintIt! is a utility that allows you to view and print text files.  Its
primary audience is programmers and other professionals that have frequent
need to use text files under Windows.

With PrintIt! you may view multiple files at the same time or print text
files in a variety of modes.

PrintIt! was written to enable you to print text files speedily and
economically without too much paper.  PrintIt! prints files in terms of
logical pages; you can instruct PrintIt! to print several logical pages
on a physical page.

Using PrintIt! you can print one, two or four logical pages per physical
page in either landscape or portrait mode.  Two up mode is best for printing
source files for review or documentation.  Four up mode is useful to view
large files quickly.


Preferred one line description:

PRTIT12.ZIP	- Text file viewer and printer formatter


Watch for next release!
-----------------------

PrintIt! V2.1 is under development and will bring many
new features....

	- Drag & Drop support to print files
	- Menu command to determine how many pages to print
	- Headers enhanced to include file date & time stamp
	- Save/Restore all configuration parameters as defaults

Watch for announcement.


Availability
------------

PrintIt! V1.2 can be obtained via anonymous FTP from:

	ftp.cica.indiana.edu: pub/pc/win3/uploads
		expected to move to....
			      pub/pc/programmr	

	[as soon as cica re-enables uploads!]

	tandem.com:	      pub 

File name: prtit12.zip




Change History
--------------

V1.2 (1/25/93)
	- Problems printing with Postscript printers.  Neither
	  Print Setup... or Print... dialog boxes appear when
	  corresponding menu commands selected.

		Fixed; method of obtaining printer device mode
		       structure changed to avoid 'missing device'
		       error.

	- Selecting font sizes smaller than 7 pt caused PrintIt!
	  to succesively reduce the point size by 1 on every 
	  subsequent invocation of the Format|Font menu item.

		Fixed; incorrectly translated point size after
		       Font selection.

	- When using 'Terminal' font, Format|Font must be selected
	  after PrintIt! starts before font is correctly displayed.

		Defer; due to PrintIt! storing only partial font
		       information in it's profile file.  Will be
		       fixed in release 2.1.

V1.1 (1/18/93)

	- Selecting certain printers as default printer would cause
	  PrintIt! to abort during startup with a "Square root of -1"
	  error message.

		Fixed; defective printer driver over writes certain
		       input only parameters causing later divide
		       by zero condition.

	- Selecting certain printers as default printer would prevent
	  PrintIt! from displaying Printer Setup... or Print...
	  dialog boxes.

		Fixed; certain drivers require more memory to be
		       allocated for internal data structures than
		       PrintIt! V1.0 allocated.

V1.0	- Initial release
From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Form Tools (OCR)
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:09:07 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

swslr@well.sf.ca.us (Larry Krone) writes:


>I am looking for a C program (or DLL) that would allow me to scan a
>pre printed form store it (as a template), then scan a completed
>form and have the filled in areas pulled off so I could save as a
>graphic image...

>Any Ideas....

Wang's Form Editor, which is part of Lan Recognition Server for
OPEN/image, does what you are describing.  This is a pretty
common need for forms processing.

Our implementation lets the user draw rectangles around areas
that are expected to have data in them.  Then, at recognition
time, these rectangles are used when looking at parts of the
image for OCR.

Our implementation was pretty easy because we used the O/i IDK.
I looked around to see if there was anything available as
freeware or shareware, and if there was anything that we could
license, instead of developing it from the ground up.  I didn't
find anything that would fill our needs.

Hope this helps,
Regards,
Dave
-- 
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.   Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
Project Leader, OCR products            kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
Internet: dbushong@wang.com
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools:2193 comp.multimedia:4188
From: raj@phys.ksu.edu (S. Raj Chaudhury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Visual Basic for Windows and DVI
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:06:40 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu
Keywords: multimedia

In <1jcldnINN41b@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> roger@oit.itd.umich.edu (Roger Espinosa) writes:

>Hi.

>So if *anyone* has *any* experience using VizBasic for Windows with
>any of the hardware found in an IBM Ultimedia machine -- namely,
>	* IBM Video Capture Adapter
>	* IBM Audio Capture/Play Adapter
>	* IBM M-Motion
>	* IBM DVI 

We are not using VizBasic - but have an Ultimedia Machine with a DVI
card in it.  Microsoft Video for Windows is perfectly happy with a DVI
card and plays back Digital Video through it.  There are no MCI drivers
for DVI yet, to the best of my knowledge...however, it is supposed
to be coming soon.  One would think VizBasic could talk to Video for
Windows, which with the proper driver could talk to the DVI card (through
MCI)...

Waiting for the 486/i750 !!!


>:-)

>*Thanks!*

>Roger
>roger@oit.itd.umich.edu
> 
--
S. Raj Chaudhury			|
Dept. of Physics    			|  raj@phys.ksu.edu
Kansas State University			|
Manhattan, KS 66506			|
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: hill@netcom.com (Tom Hill)
Subject: DLL callbacks in VB
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:25:53 GMT

Hi -

Does anyone know if it is possible to register for callbacks from a DLL
within visual basic 2.0? In particular, I would like to open a midi input
device. The callback can either be to a function, or as a message posted
to a window. (I'd like to be able to do both).

Any suggestions appreciated.

Tom Hill


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Subject: Re: DLL callbacks in VB
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:51:58 GMT

hill@netcom.com (Tom Hill) writes:
: Hi -
: 
: Does anyone know if it is possible to register for callbacks from a DLL
: within visual basic 2.0? In particular, I would like to open a midi input
: device. The callback can either be to a function, or as a message posted
: to a window. (I'd like to be able to do both).
: 
: Any suggestions appreciated.
: 
: Tom Hill


It doesn't seem to be possible to do that directly in Visual Basic (though
I may be wrong). I beleive you will have to write a VBX (normally in C) and
add it to your VB environment.

Desaware sells an add-on, "SpyWorks-VB", that seems to do that and more.
I beleive MicroHelp has a CallBack VBX as well.

-- 
=============================================================================
 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
=============================================================================

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: smithb@cognos.com (Brad Smith)
Subject: Re: Subroutines for developing Databases
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:22:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.135406.19501@ugle.unit.no> wayne@unix1 (Solan Gundersen) writes:
>Hello everybody!
>
>Does anybody know about where i could find subroutines that i could
>include into my c code. I am makeing an alarm system for hospitales
>and need to store data into a database (info about callers etc.) on
>line while doing other thing. Since Windows is partially multitasking, 
>we desided to program in C for Windows. So the problem is how to 
>access a database fast to store a record and then continue. We also 
>like to store in a standard database format like DBASE or someting 
>like that. If anybody can help me, i whould be eternaly happy.
>
As it happens, a little over a year ago I too was working on an alarm system
for hospitals (and similar). I've moved on now, but some of my early research
may be of some use to you.

I would strongly recommend that you look at Borland's Paradox Engine (for
Windows, in your case, though a DOS version is available).
What it is, is a bunch of DLL's that handle all the database access for you. I
never actually got to *look* at this myself, but the literature I read made it
look like it could save a lot of work.
The bonus is that the database file created *is* a Paradox file, so you could
maintain it off-line using Paradox for DOS (and for Windows, whenever it's
released). Our long-term plan was to allow networking of the PC's, so that an
administrator could to data entry & reporting on a separate machine, without
risking tying up the alarm software.

One question that came up early is that the users were interested in running
things like WordPerfect, etc *while* the alarm software was running. Our answer
was to forget it. Windows is simply *not* stable or fast enough to allow this
to be done without risking data loss to the alarm system.

Hope this helps;
Brad.
-- 
Brad P. Smith - Software Designer
Cognos Inc.; 3755 Riverside Dr.; Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; K1G 3Z4
Voice: (613) 738-1440 ext 3702      FAX: (613) 738-0002
Internet: smithb@cognos.COM         BIX: B.P.Smith@bix.com

-- 
Brad P. Smith - Software Designer
Cognos Inc.; 3755 Riverside Dr.; Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; K1G 3Z4
Voice: (613) 738-1440 ext 3702      FAX: (613) 738-0002
Internet: smithb@cognos.COM         BIX: B.P.Smith@bix.com
From: neawedde@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (When the going gets Wierd, the Wierd turn PRO!!!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Opinions: Borland Paradox Engine
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:06:59 EST

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

I have been using the PDox engine for about a year, on and off.  It is a good
product, very simple to use ... however,  as one would expect, it will only
create, edit, manipulate database which are in the "paradox" format.  I
consider it to be a good add on product which is used in conjunction to using
the Paradox Data Product.  Using only the engine, without paradox would be
quite cumbersome.  

The paradox engine is ideal if you are already familiar with the Paradox
product.  There are some applications where the Paradox Product does not offer
the flexibility.  One such instance we ran into was faxing forms out of the
Paradox environment.  The engine was used to build a CAS driver which worked
while using the paradox enviorment.   Good luck.

Jim Neawedde
From: smcl@speed.kiev.ua (Scott McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Yacc/Lex for Windows?
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:33:20 GMT
Reply-To: smcl@speed.kiev.ua
Organization: Private Scott McLoughlin

Howdy,

> I am looking for Yacc and Lex for Windows programming.  I know there are
> byacc, bison, and flex for DOS. But do they work if I incorporate the code
> they generate into a Windows application or Windows DLL?

> Do such tools exist (commercially or in public domain)? Any information is
> greatly appreciated.

Please respond to news, I'm in need of such a beast as well.

Currently, I am looking at porting Allan Holub's LeX and occs
to versions that will do the above.  It's _very_ well documented
(a big book) and it's the one I have with me here in Kiev,
Ukraine -- and, to be frank, I'm bored.

If anyone knows if A. Holub has a net address, I'd appreciate it. If
he allows and if I complete the task, I could post results to some
archive site. [ He might not -- he charges $60 for source on disk. ]

-- Scott McLoughlin
[ This cutesy message intentionally left blank. ]
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: wayne@unix1 (Solan Gundersen)
Subject: Subroutines for developing Databases
Organization: MRIH, More og Romsdal Ingeniorhogskole
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:54:06 GMT

Hello everybody!

Does anybody know about where i could find subroutines that i could
include into my c code. I am makeing an alarm system for hospitales
and need to store data into a database (info about callers etc.) on
line while doing other thing. Since Windows is partially multitasking, 
we desided to program in C for Windows. So the problem is how to 
access a database fast to store a record and then continue. We also 
like to store in a standard database format like DBASE or someting 
like that. If anybody can help me, i whould be eternaly happy.

Thanx from Kjetil Roe
From: kit@rieska.oulu.fi (Ilpo Karjalainen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Did not catch Status line discussion
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:17:56 GMT
Organization: University of Oulu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Hi! Unfortunately I saw only the subjects of postings from Jonatan Guzman
and Trevor Jenkins. 

If you two had a solution & example code for implementing status line 
would you please repost it here?

Currently I have a need for a status line like one in Quick C or Winword, it
should have few text fields to display help on menu choices, app events etc.

Thanks,
-ilpo
--
Ilpo Karjalainen - Dept. of Information processing science, Oulu University
kit@sunrise.oulu.fi, kit@tolsun.oulu.fi, tel. +358-81-554 6241 (voice)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools