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From: mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Floating point compilation options
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:54:43 GMT

Has anyone done experiments with conditional co-processor
versus required co-processor verus no coprocessor.

If you have a co-processor does require-coprocessor run much faster than
conditional-coprocessor?

If you don't have a co-processor does compiling for no-coprocessor run
must faster than conditional?

The compiler in question is Borland C++ for windows.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: s2212530@techst02.technion.ac.il (Oded Malky)
Subject: 2 Questions
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:54:09 GMT

Hi everybody.
 Two questions:

1 - In Borland C++ 3.1, is there any predefined constant to sense Windows environment? 
     Example for usage:

     #ifdef WINDOWS
     ...
     #endif

2 - How can I close (from the program) the window opened by a PRINTF command?
     (It's name is changed to 'inactivate...' and that's it).

Thanks,
  Oded Malky.
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From: mjb@netcom.com (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: programming editors for windows?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:25:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.052139.26358@netcom.com> dosbears@netcom.com (David R. Preston) writes:
>I'm looking for a good editor to use under windows for programming
>in Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, both for windows programs and non-windows
>programs. Currently we're using Brief 2.1 for Dos, which kind of 

When this was asked recently, the answer was pfe, available on cica if I 
remember correctly.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: seymour@ast.saic.com (Ken Seymour)
Subject: Re: Protogen/ Owl directories
Organization: SAIC
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:37:33 GMT

>
>In article <1993Jan6.060043.28516@umr.edu> chrisg@cs.umr.edu (Chris Gorsuch) writes:
>I have recently purchased the Borland C++ 3.1 compiler.
>It came with the ProtoGen windows creator included with it.
>The problem is that Protogen is Looking for /borlandc/owl/owl.h
>and it causes an error when it realizes that I have no owl directory
>

There should be an option in Protogen that allows using OWL with C++ or
just SDK calls with C.  Try switching it to the latter and give it a
try.  It worked for me.



>
>Question 2 is what header file should I give protogen...
>ie how do I hook MY code into the individual menus I have set up.
>It would appear from the little pamphlet that I do all of the protogen
>work first and THEN create my code and hook it into it.
>but without being able to get by the owl problem I can't begin to tackle
>the second problem
>

For each control (menu or button) there is entry in a switch statement.
Protogen generates special pairs of comments for each of these.  Any
code added there is preserved in successive generations.  There are also
comment pairs for the top of each file (the header section) where you
can declare variables and include your own header files.

This approach is IMHO a very powerfull way to go.  Sun Microsystems
sells a  similar tool for X Windows that uses the same approach.  We
will be looking very strongly at using Protogen for production software.

-- 
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From: J.Cowan@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Dynamic GUI libraries
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:21:31 GMT


Hi,

I have been looking for a GUI tool (eg a C++ class library) which
allows you to build the UI dynamically (ie at runtime). Most
of the other class libraries (eg OWL) and tools like Visual Basic
seem to adopt a very static model - ie you use a resource compiler
to design a form etc. I know for example that you can for example 
create dialog boxes dynamically through the SDK via a CreateDialogIndirect,
but I would like to use a much higher level tool than the SDK.

Can anyone make any recommendations?

James Cowan     Dept of Computer Science, University College London

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: memetral@athena.mit.edu (Max E. Metral)
Subject: Re: Creating status bar
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:22:16 GMT

I have just placed a status bar class on cica.  It has documentation in the
header file.  Very simple to use.  3-D and all that good stuff.

the .cpp and .h files are included, they are for MSC++ 7.0

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: vorwerk@cs.utwente.nl (Manfred Vorwerk)
Subject: CDBW.ZIP database toolbox for WINDOWS
Keywords: database toolbox, windows
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:44:01 GMT

Recently I noticed a sophisticated database toolkit for Microsoft Windows
programmers on FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU, it's called CDB for Windows.

Everything I've read sofar sounds great. There is only one little question that
keeps coming to my head:

	"What's the catch?"

It seems to me that there are a number of possibilities:

	1) Only a limited number of tables can be referenced
	2) Only a limited number of records (per table) can be stored
	3) Limited time to evaluate toolkit


Can somebody please tell me something about this toolkit? 
If you wish you can E-Mail me, I'll summerize.

Manfred Vorwerk

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: dosbears@netcom.com (David R. Preston)
Subject: Re: programming editors for windows?
Organization: DosBears at Netcom
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:12:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.040303.23745@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.052139.26358@netcom.com> dosbears@netcom.com (David R. Preston) writes:
>>I'm looking for a good editor to use under windows for programming
>>in Microsoft C/C++ 7.0
>
>	Can't pass this up...:)  Borland's IDE comes with a
>	*great* Windows editor with colour syntax highlighting.

Um, er, well, that's actually an option we're considering... Codeview
makes me want to scream sometimes....

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
Subject: Re: programming editors for windows?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:11:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.040303.23745@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.052139.26358@netcom.com> dosbears@netcom.com (David R. Preston) writes:
>>I'm looking for a good editor to use under windows for programming
>>in Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, both for windows programs and non-windows
>>programs. Currently we're using Brief 2.1 for Dos, which kind of 
>>makes sense since Mc/c++7.0 isn't a windows app either :-), but the
>>boss wants me to look at windows editors. I've ordered Codewright 2.0
>>and a demo copy of ED for Windows. What else should I look at?  Is
>>EditPro any good? It's certainly cheap....
>
>	Can't pass this up...:)  Borland's IDE comes with a
>	*great* Windows editor with colour syntax highlighting.
>-- 
>John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
>Airborne Geophysics
>Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
And I can't pass this one up, John... :)  MS Quick-C for Windows comes not
only with a **GREAT** Windows editor with colo(u)r syntax highlighting, but
also with a FREE copy of Quick-Case:W, an application shell generator!  And
the output from Quick-Case:W, along with a standard makefile, will compile
right nicely, thank you very much, under MSC/C++ 7
Bill Whedon   whedon@netcom.com   WordTech Systems, Inc. GIS Products Lab

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From: atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu (David O'Donnell)
Subject: Visual Basic 1.0 questions
Summary: Need help/suggestions/sample code
Organization: Enhanced Cybernetic Logic Operating Systems Group
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:34:07 GMT

I am writing an app in VB 1.0 which will be an offline mail reader for VM/CMS
(and possibly, eventually, Unix) mail. I have some questions which are not
covered by the VB docs (as far as I've been able to tell). Any answers are
appreciated, though beforehand I will tell you that upgrades are not viable.
Please send replies to my e-mail address (below).

(1) I would like to be able to access the Common Dialogs which are part of
	Windows 3.1; Win31API.TXT and Win30API.TXT are not helpful.

(2) I would like to obtain at runtime a list of installed fonts.

(3) I would like to obtain specific information about one or more of the fonts
	mentioned in (2).

I am grateful for your time and replies. Really-useful-suggestions will get
mentioned in the documentation.

--Dave O'Donnell
  atropos@netlab.cis.brown.edu
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Scanner Interface Library (DLL) for Windows
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:41:55 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

swslr@well.sf.ca.us (Larry Krone) writes:
: 
: I am looking for DLL that will support a line of scanners (Ricoh, Fuji, HP...)
: that will allow me to scan in an image, edit the image (size and such) and
: save
: it back out in a tiff or pcx format...I want to be able to interface with this
: DLL through Visual Basic if at all possible.......Any Ideas???....
: 
: Thanx,
: 
: 
: Larry Krone
: swslr@well.sf.ca.us

I've seen an ad (not the actual product) from Data Techniques. It
includes scanner support (through the TWAIN standard) and TIFF,PCX,
GIF, BMP, TGA, WMF and EPSF.

It's for VB and costs $249.

(800) 868-8003 or (912) 651-8003
Fax: (912) 651-8021

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: fbajj@nuscc.nus.sg (Jiang Jiong (Dr))
Subject: Help, Reading in a bitmap
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:19:09 GMT


Help!!! How can I display a bitmap file while the file is 
on harddisk instead of the resource file (which will take 
a lot of memeory if the size and number of the files increases).
I have checked througth some books on the window progrmamming(
I was using microsoft c and SDK tool) while the only thing
metioned in these books saying using createdibbitmap command with
the point varibale pointing to the bit code in the memroy. However,
reading a file  larger than 64k I suppose I should using h point
(Huge point and compiling under either compact or huge memory selection),
but the book said the window subroutin will not support h Point(I
suppose it will not support createdibitmap).

Any help would be appreciate and many thanks in advance!!
From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Protogen/ Owl directories
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:09:36 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <86238@ut-emx.uucp> jamshid@ut-emx.uucp (Jamshid Afshar) writes:

> [... OWL stuff deleted ...]
>
>>Question 2 is what header file should I give protogen...
>>ie how do I hook MY code into the individual menus I have set up.
>>It would appear from the little pamphlet that I do all of the protogen
>>work first and THEN create my code and hook it into it.
>>but without being able to get by the owl problem I can't begin to tackle
>>the second problem
>
>Sorry I don't use Protogen but maybe someone else will answer.  I just
>use OWL and the ResourceWorkshop.  I've seen a lot of people post in
>c.o.m.p.t that Protogen was not very useful.  If you bought it in lieu
>of OWL, I recommend you return it and get AF.

Basically, Protogen generates code with special comments in it.  It allows
you to insert your modifications in the relevant spots, and if you keep it
between the comments, Protogen should preserve your personalized code.

I agree with the assessment that Protogen isn't worth the money.  Things 
like OWL and MFC make Windows programming easier and simplistic tools like
Protogen don't seem very useful.  I'd like to play around with a full-fledged
prototyping, CASE, tool, but Protogen certainly isn't one.

-- 
 Rob Ryan
    rryan@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Arthur Lim)
Subject: Need Help With Scroll Window
Organization: Singapore Computer Systems Ltd
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:14:16 GMT

Hi

I encountered a little problem when trying to write an application
that has scrolled windows. The effect I wanted was to have a window
with a large client area. In this client area I will have some
controls. When I scroll the window with the scroll-bars, I want to
be able to pan the client area.

Question. Is there a way to determine the largest size of the client
area without calculating the sizes of all the child controls?

Thanks in advance.



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From: Ian_Upright@mindlink.bc.ca (Ian Upright)
Subject: VB 2.0 Question...
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:20:45 GMT

I'm a C++ programmer, and not familiar with VB at all.  I am thinking of
speeding up development by writing DLL's and using VB as a front-end for
now..
Does anybody know how easy it is to implement full object drag and drop
under Visual Basic 2.0?  I just don't mean moving an icon around, I mean
actually sensing that one icon was dropped onto another.. with similar
features
& cababilities of the OS/2 PM?  Is this possible??  If it is, would speed
be a problem under VB?

Thanks..

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From: kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Protogen/ Owl directories
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:12:41 GMT
	<1993Jan6.210936.27706@panix.com>
Organization: MITEL Public Switching, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: rryan@panix.com's message of 6 Jan 93 21:09:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.210936.27706@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:

| I agree with the assessment that Protogen isn't worth the money.
| Things like OWL and MFC make Windows programming easier and
| simplistic tools like Protogen don't seem very useful.  I'd like to
| play around with a full-fledged prototyping, CASE, tool, but
| Protogen certainly isn't one.

While it's true that Protogen isn't ultra-powerful, it handles the
tedious job of setting up a framework very well. Copying one
application to another is not always an easy task because too much
must be changed or removed to make it worth the effort. And setting up
a complex app from scratch, even with OWL, is a pain. Protogen blasts
through it in minutes.

I'm not a big fan of keeping everything in Protogen format though.
Once generated, I cut the regen brackets out.

Since I got Protogen thrown in with BCC 3.1 + AF, I must say that it's
pretty good for the money.

Just another data point.
--
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From: amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Fountain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: String format in Visual Basic??
Date: 10 Jan 93 22:00:23 GMT

Can anybody tell me the format of strings in VB
so that I can pass them to and from C DLLs without
being limited to 255 characters. I want to know
the internal string format.
Thanks,
--
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker)
Subject: Re: Make for Windows?
Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:57:29 GMT

Have you tried PolyMake ?
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From: donh@shakala.com (Don Hackler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Visual Basic Win 2.0
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:49:56 GMT
Organization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289

af734@yfn.ysu.edu (Andy Klein) writes:

> 
>      I'm using Visual BASIC Standard Edition v2.0 and I've run into
> the following dilemma.  I'm trying to create an array of string by
> concatenating two other values together, but would like the two
> columns of data to each be left justified.  However, the font that
> I am using contains letters of different widths.  For instance,
> assume an array of strings called Names$() and an array of integers
> called Num%() contain the following made-up data:
>  
>      Names$(1) = "Samuel"          Num%(1) = 15
>      Names$(2) = "Richard"         Num%(2) = 3
>      Names$(3) = "Al"              Num%(3) = 221
>      Names$(4) = "James"           Num%(4) = 54
>      Names$(5) = "Bob"             Num%(5) = 11
>  
> I would then like to create a second string array called Results$()
> that contained the following:
>  
>      Results$(1) = "Samuel   15"
>      Results$(2) = "Richard  3"
>      Results$(3) = "Al       221"
>      Results$(4) = "James    54"
>      Results$(5) = "Bob      11"
>  
> My problem is that since the characters in MS-Windows aren't all
> the same pixel width, the column of numbers is not vertically lined
> up correctly when I print the results.  Is there a way to get the
> second column of numbers to be lined up?  Thanks,
> Andy Klein

Print them separately so that the second column can be positioned
independently of the first.
- or -
Use a fixed-width font (such as one of the Courier variations)
so that the columns line up automatically.

- don

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From: andrew@cursci.demon.co.uk (Andrew Trotman)
Subject: Demo Makers
Distribution: world
Organization: Current Drugs
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:12:29 +0000

Does anyout out there use anything to create demos of their programs for
MS-Windows?  We use Dan Bricklen's DEMO II package for DOS but we need
something for Windows.  Basically all  we need is something to allow
us to take screen dumps and to annotate them.

Anyone use anything?  We really don't want to write a demo in C, it'd
take almost as long to write the demo as it took to write the program!


Andrew.
andrew@curci.co.uk

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: dale@odetics.com (Dale Pischke)
Subject: Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)
Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 16:22:14 GMT

Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
TDW is not 'S3 aware'.

So, what do some of you other developers do for debugging, with a
S3 type video board -- I've read that using a monochrome card MIGHT
slow the entire system down -- is this True? Also, I noticed on
Compuserve, there is one DLL in the Borland Library which might make
debugging under a S3 possible, the description of the DLL file said
it was preliminary, though -- anyone have experience with this?

Thanks,

Dale

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From: vorwerk@cs.utwente.nl (Manfred Vorwerk)
Subject: Re: CDBW.ZIP database toolbox for WINDOWS
Keywords: database toolbox, windows
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:08:22 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.134401@cs.utwente.nl>, vorwerk@cs.utwente.nl (Manfred Vorwerk) writes:
|> 
|> 	"What's the catch?"
|> 
|> It seems to me that there are a number of possibilities:
|> 
|> 	1) Only a limited number of tables can be referenced
|> 	2) Only a limited number of records (per table) can be stored
|> 	3) Limited time to evaluate toolkit
|> 

Sorry for the postage of the last message. I've tried the CDBW toolkit and it seems
that only 50 records can be added to the database. 
An error-message says so. Checking the manual, one could notice that this is only
mentioned in the section ERROR-messages, which one only reads when using the
product, and so spending a lot of time in the product. EEEEEEKKK

Manfred Vorwerk
From: donh@shakala.com (Don Hackler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: VB - custom cursors??
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:41:01 GMT
Organization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA 408-734-2289

galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben) writes:

> Would anyone happen to know how to create a custom cursor
> in VB (either 1.0 or 2.0)???  I am in need of a large "box"
> cursor when I pass over a certain set of controls.
> 
> One thought I had is that I could hack one of the preset
> cursors using a resource editor - Since I haven't had
> a need for this before I haven't a clue where to start 
> looking, instinct tells me those are in Windows itself
> though :-(   Is there a way to change one using code and
> have it active only until my application terminates?
> 
> Thanks!!
> - Galen -
> galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com

The mouse cursors in Windows are limited to 32x32 pixels.

You could possibly hide the mouse cursor when the mouse is
over your special area and just draw the rectangle yourself.
You will have to get rid of the rectangle and restore the mouse
cursor when the mouse moves out of the area.  

I'm guess these things can be done in VB, I know they can be 
in C.

- don

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Make for Windows?
From: moorebj@cselc18.cs.hh.ab.com (Bruce J Moore)
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:50:01 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.

	Sorry if this is a FAQ, but what do folks do for a real make
for DOS/Windows development?

	Nmake is included with MSC, but it is lacking here and there.
Gnu make would be ideal if there was a DOS port, but the only one
I've found crashes (GNUISH stuff:  Funny, and it *used to* work).

	Please email responses and I will post a summary upon request
if there is sufficient interest.

Bruce
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