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In comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools, cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern) writes:

    I was wondering if someone could help me with Borland C++ for windows debuger.
    When I am using Borland C++ for Windows and I chose to run the debuger from it
    it crashes just about everything.  What it comes down to is that he system
    needs to be rebooted.  Does anyone have any sugestions of a way to fix this? 

    My system is:  Gatway 2000 486/33, SuperVGA, Windows 3.1 and Borland C++ 3.1

    chris.

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A similar situation happened to one of my friends and after spending a few
hours tring out all sort of configuration, it was discovered that TDW only 
works when window 3.1 was using a VGA driver. The system that had the problem
was a HP Vectra 486s/20 using an UltraVGA card(1M) with 8 Meg of RAM and 430Mb
Harddisk. Perhaps U would like to change your configuration to VGA to see
if TDW works.

regards
Hon Sung

R&D Engineer                        email:  lum@hpsglhz.sgp.hp.com
Asia Peripherals Division
Hewlett Packard Singapore
From: eliel@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU (Eliel Mamousette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: NMAKE template for .lib files?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 19:46:41 GMT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, RI  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: stanley.cis.brown.edu

Since I don't really have the time to be doing this, I was wondering if
anyone out there had already developed a PWB (NMAKE prefered) template
for creating library files?  (Not dll's, lib's) 

Thanks in advance,
	eliel


--
Eliel Mamousette, Systems Development Group
Brown University Computing & Information Services
Email: Eliel_Mamousette@Brown.Edu
Post: CIS Box 1885 Brown University 115 Waterman St. Providence, RI 02906

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: help with borland c++ and module files
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:23:54 GMT

Although I am familiar with both c++ and windows programming, this
is the first time that I have been using both together.  Consequently, 
I am haveing some problems linking a windows c++ file.  After linking
I get the warning:

Attempt to export non-public symbol WNDPROC

I have tried all of the suggestions in the help for this error, with 
no luck.  Any Suggestions.

btw, please respond by e-mail

thanks

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From:  hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su (Hapugin Andrey)
Subject: DLL format description needed
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:03:29 GMT
Reply-To: hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su
Organization: Institute of Informatics Systems
Keywords: DLL format

Can anybody help me to find description of .DLL
files format for MS/DOS,OS/2 & Windows? I need
it to implement dynamic loader/linker for DLLs and
unfortunately I can't find its description here.
Any help well be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Andy D. Khapugin (Hady),
hady@isi.itfs.nsk.su
From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Windows BMP - OS2 BMP Conversion
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:26:30 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

In <Mark_Morrill-231192152724@mac84082.educ.ualberta.ca> Mark_Morrill@itc.educ.ualberta.ca (Mark Morrill) writes:

>I need some utility that can convert between OS/2 bitmaps and Windows
>bitmaps.
Have a look at PainShop Pro. I don't know what the latest version is (only
tried v1.0) but even 1.0 could handle that (and quite a lot more too).
   _
/Bjorn.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: bsm@res.utc.com (Brian S. McCarthy)
Subject: Exporting functions from Borland C++
Summary: How can I export functions from Borland C++?
Keywords: export
Organization: UTRC
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:51:31 GMT


I've written a DOS application in Borland C++, which I now want to turn into 
a DLL to link with a Visual Basic front end.

How can I get Borland C++ to "export" a function from a C++ program?  It's 
no problem as long as I stick with C, but from C++ it won't export.

Brian McCarthy                                              
United Technologies Research Center
East Hartford, Connecticut(203)727-7638
bsm@utrc.utc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: Mark_Morrill@itc.educ.ualberta.ca (Mark Morrill)
Subject: Windows BMP - OS2 BMP Conversion
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Organization: Instructional Technology Centre, UofA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:24:43 GMT

I need some utility that can convert between OS/2 bitmaps and Windows
bitmaps.
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools:1490 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc:3617
From: rosen@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (steven.b.rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Gupta vs. Actor. vs *anything else*
Keywords: ms win development packages
Date: 23 Nov 92 16:08:44 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: AT&T

MS Win programmers:

	We're considering developing a MS Windows front end for an
	existing Unix system with an Oracle back end. I've heard a 
	lot of good things about the package from Gupta (Sql Windows),
	does anyone have any first hand experiences they can pass along.

	I'm interested in both the good news AND THE BAD NEWS.

	Also, a product called "Actor" from the Whitewater group used to
	be popular, how does Gupta compare. Is Actor (or anything else
	out there) any better?

	Feel free to e-mail, I'll post a synopsis of there is interest.

	...steve...

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                          attmail!srosen
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: nuscss1@vms1.iscs.nus.sg (Vax BULLET-IN-Board SysOps)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ INFO NEEDED!!!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: National University of Singapore Dept. of Computer Sc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:59:00 GMT

In article <mills.721334453@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>, mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills) writes...
> 
>Borlands line of compilers are confusing !!!
> 
>IDE-W (Integrated development environment under windows)
>IDE-D (Integrated development environment under DOS)

	There is only one Borland IDE (BC.EXE), and it works for both DOS and
	Windows apps. Also bundled with BC is Turbo C++ for Windows(TCW.EXE),
	a windows-based IDE complete with menus and icons. What's the
	difference ? Beats me. Everything I've tried that works under BC.EXE
	compiles beautifully under TCW.EXE as well.

>TD (Debuger for DOS under DOS)
>TDW (debugger for Windows under DOS [not a typo, yes DOS])

	no it isn't. try running TDW under DOS, and you'll get a 
	"This program requires Microsoft Windows" error message. Despite
	its full text appearence, TDW is a Windows apps, except that it
	cannot be switched around like ordinary apps. 

>Workshop (Dialog Box editor/Icon Editor etc.)

> 
>Borland C++ (for DOS) I'm not sure if this animal exists. If it does
>it probably includes Turbo Vision.

	it doesn't. As far as i know, there is only a BC++ with the
	application frameworks, and another without. Both
	support DOS and Windows programming.
From: eliel@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU (Eliel Mamousette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: NMAKE template for .lib files?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:14:52 GMT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, RI  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: stanley.cis.brown.edu

Let me follow up to my own post:  it you specify no run-time support,
you will then find the template for library files in PWB....

In article <1egqv1INN2n2@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> eliel@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU (Eliel Mamousette) writes:
>Since I don't really have the time to be doing this, I was wondering if
>anyone out there had already developed a PWB (NMAKE prefered) template
>for creating library files?  (Not dll's, lib's) 
>
>Thanks in advance,
>	eliel
>
>
--
Eliel Mamousette, Systems Development Group
Brown University Computing & Information Services
Email: Eliel_Mamousette@Brown.Edu
Post: CIS Box 1885 Brown University 115 Waterman St. Providence, RI 02906



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: IZZYOB9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Bob Stocks)
Subject: Stacker & Borland
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:49:13 PST

I'm planning to get Stacker (or some other compression software)
and I just wanted to find out how Borland C++ deals with it.
How much of it must be left uncompressed?Is it just the .EXE
files or the .DLLs also?
Thanks in Advance,
Bob Stocks (IZZYOB9@mvs.oac.ucla.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: nuscss1@vms1.iscs.nus.sg (Vax BULLET-IN-Board SysOps)
Subject: Re: Problem with Borland's Turbo Debugger for Windows : HELP!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: National University of Singapore Dept. of Computer Sc.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:08:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.162408.23622@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes...
> 
>You are apparently running an old version of Borland C++ (telling us
>the versions of Borland C++ and Windows you are running would have
>been helpful).  I am assuming you are running Borland C++ 3.0 and
>Windows 3.1 on these machines.  

	you're right on target: I am running BC++ 3.0 with Windows 3.1.

>You need to either patch the debugger
>(which still leaves some things not working quite well between Borland
>C++ and Windows 3.1, as I understand it) or you need to upgrade to the
>current version of Borland C++ (3.1).

	o rats! more $$$. the guys in the office won't be happy when they
	hear this... =-)
> 
>Just by the way, where did you get 3 OLD copies of Borland C++ that
>you are just now trying to load on machines?
> 
	My employer bought them. But then again, these copies 
	were bought a while back when they were coding for Windows 3.0.
	I guess upgrading the compiler was not high on their priority list...

>-- 
>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Borland C++ INFO NEEDED!!!
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:20:17 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA

nuscss1@vms1.iscs.nus.sg (Vax BULLET-IN-Board SysOps) writes:

>In article <mills.721334453@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>, mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills) writes...
>> 
>>Borlands line of compilers are confusing !!!
>> 
>>IDE-W (Integrated development environment under windows)
>>IDE-D (Integrated development environment under DOS)

>	There is only one Borland IDE (BC.EXE), and it works for both DOS and
>	Windows apps. Also bundled with BC is Turbo C++ for Windows(TCW.EXE),
>	a windows-based IDE complete with menus and icons. What's the
>	difference ? Beats me. Everything I've tried that works under BC.EXE
>	compiles beautifully under TCW.EXE as well.

Actually, this is no longer the case; the difference was that the BC
IDE supported code optimization that Turbo C++ didn't; the Windows IDE
shipped with Borland C++ 3.1 supports all the optimizations which the
DOS IDE does.  Turbo C++ continues not to support these optimizations.
However, the IDE's for both Windows and DOS are shipped in the same package.

>>TD (Debuger for DOS under DOS)
>>TDW (debugger for Windows under DOS [not a typo, yes DOS])

>	no it isn't. try running TDW under DOS, and you'll get a 
>	"This program requires Microsoft Windows" error message. Despite
>	its full text appearence, TDW is a Windows apps, except that it
>	cannot be switched around like ordinary apps. 

>>Workshop (Dialog Box editor/Icon Editor etc.)

>> 
>>Borland C++ (for DOS) I'm not sure if this animal exists. If it does
>>it probably includes Turbo Vision.

>	it doesn't. As far as i know, there is only a BC++ with the
>	application frameworks, and another without. Both
>	support DOS and Windows programming.

The Application Frameworks includes both Turbo Vision for DOS, and
ObjectWindows for Windows.

Adam Elman
aelman@cs.stanford.edu
From: wxt5592@hertz.njit.edu (wei tang cis stnt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Need: .hlp file converter!
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:34:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.



  I am desperately looking for a windows .hlp file to microsoft word .doc file

conversion program.  

  If this is not available, any .hlp to .wri or even flat ascii file converter

will just be fin.

  Please tell me where I can get them. (or mail it to me) I appreciate it.


  David.
  wxt5592@hertz.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: MS-Windows dev kit recommendation wanted
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:48:24 GMT

I am new to the ms-windows programming game and was hoping someone could
give me some advice on what tools to use.  I've worked a lot with UNIX,
X-windows, and Xview application development.  My DOS programming skills
are a little rusty but I have used both MicroSoft and Borland flavors of
C and C++.  I've seen dev kits available from both MS and Borland but
until now have been unwilling to shell out money for them.  Which is
better?  Are there better or lower cost alternatives I should know about? 
My goal is take some of the X apps I've written and create ms-windows
equivalent applications.  Are there any good books that I should know
about (something like 'MS-Windows Programming for X-Windows Bigots' would
be perfect).

Thanks in advance for any help. 

--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!
From: udk@awd.cdc.com (Uday D. Kabe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Trouble Launching Application
Keywords: Developer Network CD
Date: 21 Nov 92 10:55:10 GMT
Reply-To: udk@awd.cdc.com
Organization: Memex, 8757 Hawthorne Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55347


I recently installed the Developer Network Pre-release CD under
Windows 3.1.  The setup of the viewer did not pose any problems.
However,  I can't seem to launch 'viewer' from its icon in the
corresponding group.  I can execute viewer from the DOS command
line; it will bring up Win 3.1 and itself without any problems.
I checked & re-checked the properties dialog box for the viewer
icon; there is no problem there that I can.

Has anyone seen this type of a problem?  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: wilcox@swarm.wustl.edu (Don Wilcox)
Subject: Looking for compression toolkit
Keywords: compression
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:55:41 GMT

Our company has written an image processing app, and we need to add data
compression to reduce the size of our images.  We intend to use JPEG, and my
question is, does anyone know of a commercially available toolset that will
allow me to compress my images?  There is one caveat, I need to be able to
store the images in a proprietary file format, so I cannot use a tool that
will only allow me to create standard file formats. Basically, I need the
routine:
	CompressBitsJPEG(HANDLE bitsToCompress, HFILE file);

and

	HANDLE UncompressBitsJPEG(HFILE file);

Does anyone know of such a toolset?  I would hate to have to port the JPEG
code to do this.

Thanks,

Don
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: ekalenda@netcom.com (Edward J Kalenda)
Subject: Re: Pixel-based Dialog Editors?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:21:51 GMT

From article <1992Nov20.192153.6355@ods.com>, by scott@ods.com (Scott Harper):
> Does anyone know of any dialog box editors that specify dialog
> templates in units of pixels rather that dialog base units?  We
> are trying to build some dialog boxes that have no text in them,
> but do contain some bitmap graphics.  When we specify things in
> terms of dialog base units, our pixel measurements come out messed
> up when we move to different resolution screens.
> 
> Also, with such a tool, we would need to be able to resource compile
> these templates "incrementally" into the standard resource files, as
> the application will include some dialog boxes and other resources
> defined in the standard way...

I've found that if I select the SYSTEM font at 10 points when defining the
dialog box I get two pixels per dialog unit at all resolutions from
640x480 and up. I don't know if this will remain consistant but it is
working for me at the moment. I think it will continue to work as long as
the pixel size of the 10 point system font doesn't change, which I would
not expect to happen.

Perhaps in some future release of windows Microsoft will add the ability
to define dialogs in terms of pixels. Tied to this ability we would also
need to be able to have resolution dependant dialogs. Sort of like icons
have different definitions depending upon CGA/VGA resolution and color/mono
modes.
-- 

Ed
ekalenda@netcom.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: jstall@ih-nxt01.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeff Evan Stall)
Subject: Help with displaying 256 color bitmaps and drag and drop
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:06:27 GMT
Keywords: bitmaps 256 drag help

I am making a program in Windows 3.1 using TPW 1.5 and BC++&AF 3.1 with  
Borland's Resource Workshop.  I can't figure out how to do these "simple"  
things:
* would like to display 256 color bitmaps from a resource.
* also would like to display 256 color 64x64 and 32x32 icons from a
  resource
* use 256 color bitmaps and icons in a dialog box (both "plain Windows"
  and "BorDLG")
* Implement drag and drop within a window- Like Excel or Word for Windows
  (All my documentation says how to do it with File Manager onto the icon)
* Background music- I have the source for WinPlay- but I can't compile it
  under BC++ 3.1.

Please e-mail any ideas to me.
Thanks for any help...

Jeff Stall
jstall@uiuc.edu
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
Subject: Re: Opinions of ProtoGen
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:24:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.204629.29649@njitgw.njit.edu> wxt5592@hertz.njit.edu (wei tang cis stnt) writes:
>
>  Protogen is a piece of junk.  Never use it! It doesn't support MDI and many others, brings problems and waste your time, and some money.  There is no cheap code generator that will work for you.  

How about this:  Forget Protogen, buy Quick-C for Windows, and use Case:W which
is included with it?  It's an _excellent_ code generator, and upgrade-able to
the Corporate Edition (creates a Help system automatically, and other little
niceties) for a very reasonable price (I paid $249US).  I've been using Case:W
and Case:PM for a number of years, and can tell you unequivocally that they
have saved me literally _months_ of drudge-work programming I'd have had to do
without them.  I can bang out prototype-to-product code in less time than it
takes non-code-generator-users to hunt down their electronic cut-and-paste
scissors, and my code will be correct the _first_ time.  If you aren't using
a modern code generator, you're wasting a lot of your life.

Oh.  Here's a little bonus for you.  The code which Case:W produces for QCWin
will compile quite nicely, thank you very much, under MSC 6.0 and 7.0.  You
just have to create a proper makefile, which you already know how to do.  And,
with appropriate changes to resources, the .WIN files produced by Case:W will
run in Case:PM and port your app to OS/2 ... automatically!  I understand that
CaseWorks also plans to produce an X-Windows (possibly Motif) version which
will also use the same .WIN files, so you'll have Unix portability, as well.

When you call CaseWorks, tell 'em I sent you and plugged 'em on Internet.   
Maybe they'll give me a discount on the next upgrade!  :-)

Cheers,
Bill Whedon   whedon@netcom.com   

-- 
-- If I ain't programmin' I ain't awake! --




Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Opinions of ProtoGen
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:02:14 GMT

whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:

>In article <1992Nov15.204629.29649@njitgw.njit.edu> wxt5592@hertz.njit.edu (wei tang cis stnt) writes:
>>
>>  Protogen is a piece of junk.  Never use it! It doesn't support MDI and many others, brings problems and waste your time, and some money.  There is no cheap code generator that will work for you.  

>How about this:  Forget Protogen, buy Quick-C for Windows, and use Case:W which


..sounds good, except I need a C++ code generator.  Protogen was quite
good at getting me up and over the startup hump.  That has save me
in time many more times its cost to me.  It puts together the framework
rather seamlessly, and the regeneration works well also.  I say buy -
I don't know another, better C++ code generator that works so well with
BC++ 3.1.


= Mark P
  UCSD CSE
From: nigeld@natinst.com (Nigel Dsouza)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Detecting Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break
Date: 16 Nov 1992 17:32:18 -0600
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.natinst.com


Do Control-C or Control-Break generate interrupts under Windows 3.1.  The
toolhelp function InterruptRegister does not have any interrupt corresponding
to Control-C or Control-Break.

I would like to be able to stop a program when the user hits one of those key
combinations.  I do not want to have to check the input queue, but handle it
like it is done on UNIX systems; by setting up a signal handler for SIGINT.

Is it possible? How?

Nigel D'Souza
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools