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From: ins434u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (D. May)
Subject: Using Borland Custom Control Library
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:49:27 GMT


I have this problem with TPW.  I am learning how to do TPW's menus, dialogs, etcwith Resource Workshop  - and am joggin through it with Neil Rubenking's
Turbo Pascal book.

I always thought that Resource Workshop was pretty cool because you could
access Borland's nice-looking dialogs, etc.  However, I have just found out
(from reading Rubenking's book) that unless BWCC.DLL is loaded (i.e. if you're
doing something like running Resource Workshop) your nice custom control
dialogs don't load up properly.

I tried it this morning and he was right.  But he says, instead of using
WObjects and StdDlgs, use the units WObjectB and StdDlgB - wait a minute...
I don't think I have those units (it would stand to reason - because I pur-
chased TPW when they bundled WRT with it.  My Resource Workshop comes with
TC++ for Windows).  Apparently, you need these units to build a stand-alone
program.

So - I was wondering if anyone can help me - by telling how to get them or
if they can get them to me or whatever!!!!!!!

Anyway ... at least I can still do dialogs - even though they'll be as 
boring as watching paint dry...


Thanks.

Daniel May
2nd year Sci/Law
Monash University, Australia, Earth
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From: dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith)
Subject: Re: Need info on Visual BASIC
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:49:18 GMT

Just wanted to add my enthusiastic support for Visual BASIC.  It is not
just for small projects.  I'm up to forty forms, forty modules, 500K
executable, 15,000 lines of code, and still going strong.  I started out
just intending to prototype the user interface and kept right on going.
I believe I qualify as a technoweenie, but when I see the right tool for
the job I stick with it.

It is also very educational. I think HyperCard was revolutionary, ToolBook
is a HyperCard knockoff, and Visual BASIC is a very significant extension of
the HyperCard idea.  Everyone should at least TRY it.

The limitations: as currently structured, I don't see how it could be
used for projects with more than a VERY small team of programmers.  And
execution speed, while VERY acceptable for in-house, contract, or
specialized jobs (MUCH better than ToolBook or HyperCard or, IMHO,
Smalltalk), would not quite be good enough for mass-market shrink-wrapped
commercial software.

Biggest problem with VB is that it doesn't look macho on your resume.
I wish to heck they had called it "ADVANCED".

Oh, and there's very good access to the Windows API and DLL's via
DECLARE statements, so you can explore the "real" Windows stuff, too.


-- 
Daniel P. B. Smith
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From: bernstei@shrike.und.ac.za (Simon Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Dbase libraries for Windows
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:39:20 GMT

Hi.  I am DESPARATELY trying to get hold of the VXBASE libraries that are being mentioned here.  I have no access to CompuServe, but I can FTP. Please, please  please help, somebody.  

Your answering this mayday call is appreciated !

  - Simon

Simon Bernstein
University of Natal, Durban
bernstei@shrike.und.ac.za
From: marshall@tfh.enet.dec.com (Hunting the Snark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Using Borland Custom Control Library
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:38:42 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <ins434u.713663367@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>, ins434u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (D. May) writes...
> 
>I have this problem with TPW.  I am learning how to do TPW's menus, dialogs, 
>etc with Resource Workshop  - and am joggin through it with Neil Rubenking's
>Turbo Pascal book.

(aside) I really like Tom Swan's book, but haven't read Rubenking.

> 
>I always thought that Resource Workshop was pretty cool because you could
>access Borland's nice-looking dialogs, etc.  However, I have just found out
>(from reading Rubenking's book) that unless BWCC.DLL is loaded (i.e. if you're
>doing something like running Resource Workshop) your nice custom control
>dialogs don't load up properly.
> 
>I tried it this morning and he was right.  But he says, instead of using
>WObjects and StdDlgs, use the units WObjectB and StdDlgB - wait a minute...

I believe that you should have them. They came with TPW1.0 and were dropped 
in 1.5 in favor of BWCC.TPU

In the mean time if you just want your dialogs to have the "Borland Look", just
put a LoadLibrary('BWCC.DLL') command in your app like this:

	begin
	  LoadLibrary('BWCC.DLL');
	  TMyApp.Init('MyApp');
	  TMyApp.Run;
	  TMyApp.Done;
	end

What 'using' the units will buy you is "the look" in the more mundane
MessageBox and other Windows-created dialogs.


Sm
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From: joero@microsoft.com (Joe Robison)
Subject: Re: unsigned long for VBASIC
Date: 22 Aug 92 00:40:22 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <9208202215.AA06261@top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> John wrote:
> 
> 
> How can one handle the problem of not having an the "unsigned integer"
> type in visual basic?  I am calling a functions in a DLL which returns
> a unsigned long value.  I need to store this value in a structure and
> pass the structure as a parameter in another DLL function call.
> my failure to this is because Visual Basic doesn't support the unsigned
> type.  Is there a way around this problem?

Just use a Long.  Yes, it's signed, but 32 bits is 32 bits.  If the high
bit is set, then it will look negative in VB, but that doesn't change
the bit pattern (unless you perform math on it).  It's just a matter of
interpretation.  You can pass it on to another function that expects an
unsigned long and it should work fine.

Hope this helps.

Joe Robison
joero@microsoft.com
NAMS (Not A Microsoft Spokeshuman)
From: mhart@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Mike Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: DDE LinkExecute error in VB
Date: 13 Aug 92 00:56:33 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA

I am attempting to perform a DDE LinkExecute in VB to a server form also
created in VB.  If the server's menu has the focus when the link execute is
performed the client hangs and I cannot reestablish the link without
restarting the client application.  I tried working around this by changing
the focus from the server menu to the client form before doing the link
execute but this does not work if the client is minimized at the time of the
link execute.

Any suggestions on how to get this to work?

Mike Hart
Santa Rosa Lightwave Operation
Hewlett-Packard Co.
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From: ingraldi@pabami.larc.nasa.gov (Anthony M. Ingraldi)
Subject: Borland Turbo C++
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:25:13 GMT

Does anyone know of a good text that teaches C++ from the ground up
and is directed specifically at Borland's latest version of Turbo C++ for
Windows?  I have some C programming experience but absolutely no knowledge
of C++ extensions.

Please respond by e-mail to:

       ingraldi@pabami.larc.nasa.gov


Thanks.
Tony Ingraldi
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Subject: How do you UNLOAD a DLL after a VB app. amends?
From: sturgeon_c@eis.dofasco.ca
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:16:27 GMT
Organization: Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ont. Can.
Nntp-Posting-User: sturgeon_c

How do you UNLOAD a DLL after your VB application amends? 

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From: leying@alpha.management.mcgill.ca (Leying Zhao)
Subject: How can access intnet in Toronto?
Originator: leying@alpha
Organization: Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:36:02 GMT

Hi,

I am going to move to Toronto soon. Is there any way I can access this
intnet in Toronto?

I sppreciate any information.
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From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: Need info on Visual BASIC
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:34:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.230209.2469@nic.csu.net> sulistio@futon.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi) writes:
>Hi,
>I would like to know more about VisualBASIC.  I keep hearing about it and
>wondered about it.  What is it?  and how does it compare with Borland C++.
>
>Thanks.
>-- 
>Mul			    |  Alt. address: sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu

Visual Basic really doesn't compare to Borland C++, but it does have its 
advantages.  It's very easy to learn and use.  You can create buttons, dialog
boxes, list boxes, etc. and link code to them with ease.  If you plan to make a
small Windows app with very little turnaround time, VB is the way to go.  I'm
using both BC++ and VB.  Of course, being the programming weenie that I'm, I
prefer BC++, but when our customers want a very quick turnaround time, I can
get it done with VB in less than a day.  Honestly, I think VB is good for 
those who really don't want to deal with the overwhelming capabilities of
BC++.  

In a nutshell, VB is very good but if you have the time and the knowledge, 
BC++ is the best way to go.  

Of course this is just my opinion...whatever it's worth.
Hope this helps.
Mario

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From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Re: Why is SHARE needed?
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:28:02 GMT

In <1992Aug20.230013.27609@csc.ti.com> krishnan@ra.csc.ti.com (Srinivasan Krishnan) writes:


>I am using my frined's PC. He has installed SHARE in his
>PC.  Why is this needed?  

Share implements file sharing.  To quote Microsoft Systems Journal:
"If you don't run Share, you have no sharing: two applications that open a
file will both succeed."  

See MSJ 1992 Jul-Aug for further details.
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From: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Subject: Re: Visual Basic Dbase toolkit
Reply-To: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:40:01 GMT

In article <anderson.22.713830139@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson) writes:
>In article <92224.160050U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>>Date: Tuesday, 11 Aug 1992 16:00:50 CDT
>>From: David James Alexander Hanley <U55870@uicvm.uic.edu>
>>Subject: Visual Basic Dbase toolkit
>

[ stuff deleted about Q&E by Pioneer which is a middleware product for
  access to databases from Windows apps ]

>files as though they were on an SQL server.  It does work.  Nice thing is 
>that you can switch your application from DBASE to SQL servers (Sybase, 
>Oracle, OS/2, even text files) and it all "works".	
>      ^^
       || 
       ^^ also Ingres. ( this has nothing ;-) to do with the fact that Ingres
			is my employer )

[ stuff deleted ]

>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Alfred Anderson                Internet:    anderson@Mayo.edu
>Mayo Foundation - Rochester MN 55905
>-----------------------------------------------------------------

Nitin Borwankar,
Ingres, Alameda Ca. 
nitin@ingres.com
**** visualize whirled peas ****

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Subject: Need info on Visual BASIC
From: sulistio@futon.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi)
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:02:08 PDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: San Francisco State University

Hi,
I would like to know more about VisualBASIC.  I keep hearing about it and
wondered about it.  What is it?  and how does it compare with Borland C++.

Thanks.
-- 
Mul			    |  Alt. address: sulistio@sutro.sfsu.edu
sulistio@futon.sfsu.edu	    |		     sulistio@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
#include "std/disclaimer.h" | NeXTmail ->    sarong!sulistio@cs.sfsu.edu 
>Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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From: kumorek@apollo.HP.COM (James Kumorek)
Subject: BC++ v3.1 & share problem
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:53:40 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Keywords: BC++

I used Borland C++ version 3.1 for the first time last night, and ran into
a strange problem that I was hoping someone else has seen and solved.
I run the "share" program from my autoexec.bat file.  When I started up
the BC++ windows IDE, and selected the 'make' option to build my project,
I got a sharing violation which terminated windows.  I found later that if
I closed all the editor windows within the IDE before doing the make, that
particular problem went away.  However, that isn't a very nice solution!

Once I discovered that, my projects would build, but the PC would "hang" for
about 2 seconds and then beep at the completion of each compile and link.  I
believe this occurred when it tried to open up the next file for compiling.

Has anyone else run into this?  I need to run 'share' in order to run the
Paradox engine application that I am writing.  What's the answer?!? 

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jim Kumorek
Systems Technology Division
Massachusetts Language Lab - Hewlett Packard
kumorek@apollo.hp.com

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From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
Subject: Re: WINHELP.EXE replacement: summary and comments
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:49:32 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.

In article <_89m9t-.garyd@netcom.com> garyd@netcom.com (Gary Dietz) writes:
>A) Full-text search
>
>A number of people said that beacuse windows help files are
>compressed, that a full-text search would be slow.  But then how does

The multimedia Viewer product is an derivative of WinHelp.  In fact, I 
browse Viewer files all the time with the standard WinHelp engine just
by having the extension DLLs from Viewer in my system directory.

Amongst many other things, Viewer gives full-text search capabilities
on Viewer specific files.  (It can read WinHelp files too, but can't
do full-text searching on them because they don't have the additional
index files.)

Viewer and it's development tools are in the Multimedia Development Kit
and I believe the engine itself is completely redistributable.

>Yes, a good index is ALWAYS a good thing.  They are just very hard to do
>well.  Ideally, I would like an index AND full-text search.

I agree.

>But, there is no real way to force very specific text flows and
>bitmap placements.  Plus, there is no way to turn off the
>automatic re-flow of text when you re-size a help window.

I'm not sure what you see as missing with bitmap placement/text wrapping.
If you can give me a specific example I'll see if I can find a solution.

The \keep RTF token makes the following paragraphs non-wrapping.  You 
will get a horizontal scroll bar if the text is too wide for the window.

>Plus, I am assuming that someobody will start to sell some stuff that
>will take advantage of WINHELP 3.1's ability to call macros.

Viewer is largely just that. Additionally I have seen some pretty slick
general purpose infomation tools done using this technique.

>E) Is there truth to the rumor that Microsoft disbanded their Help
>group?

No.

>F)  What is TPW?

Turbo Pascal for Windows I presume.

>A new help viewer would very likely require a new help compiler, as MS
>fails to document the .HLP file format.  Thus, they will change it the
>minute someone comes out with a better viewer.

This is just FUD.

-Blake
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From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
Subject: Re: How do you replace <Tab> with <Enter> in a Dialog box?
Date: 13 Aug 92 04:14:10 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.

In article <190ad098@p11.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Harald_Muehlhoff@softstream.fido.de (Harald Muehlhoff) writes:
>when the user is pressing <Enter> in a dialog box your dialog procedure 
>receives a WM_COMMAND message with IDOK in wParam.
>Just add a check at the beginning of your code handling IDOK that verifies 
>whether one of your edit controls still has the input focus. Then send your 
>dialog procedure an appropriate message to set the input focus to another edit 
>control.

This is not entirely correct.  The above will happen if you have no 
currently "default" button in the dialog box.  If you do have a default
button, it's ID will be sent in the WM_COMMAND message.

Probably the best way to enable <enter> to move to the next field is to
install a WH_MSGFILTER hook (see SetWindowsHook[Ex]) and use the 
WM_NEXTDLGCTL message.

As someone else already mentioned, this is however a poor thing to do
from a consistancy point of view.  

-Blake
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From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: TARGA/JPEG/TIFF viewer for win3.1
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:31:30 GMT
Organization: Birmingham-Southern College

In article <1992Aug14.172848.24034@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould) writes:
> Graphics Workshop for Windows is an excellent shareware product. It handles
> these formats as well as several others.

When did Graphics Workshop/Win start supporting the JFIF JPEG standard? My
1.0a copy does not. [hrmmm]
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From: olof@ikaros.fysik4.kth.se (Olof Franksson)
Subject: Problems with WinQVT/NET v2.6/7 (inst & LPR)
Organization: /home/olof/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:42:27 GMT

Problem:  v2.7 is refused by windows when installed as a
v2.7      windows 3.0 application. A message window tells
	  "application error" and "a newer version of
	  windows is necessary".
Question: Is something done the wrong way (v2.6 went OK),
	  or is windows 3.1 required for WinQVT/NET v2.7
	  and higher?

Problem:  the LPR window fails to print more than one file
v2.6 & 7  through successive "Ok" selections. A "Close"
	  between the "Ok" selections does not help. If the
	  whole WinQVT/NET application is closed down, a file
	  sometimes can be printed when the application is started
	  again. It is sometimes possible to print again if
	  the user wait for about 30s between the "Ok":s.
	  When trying multiple "Ok" the WinQVT/NET application
	  window says "ACK invalid for TCP syn sent" and a window
	  with the text "Unable to connect to lpd daemon" appears.
	  NCSA LPR works (but slow immediately after the thing above)
	  without any problems.
Question: Is something done the wrong way, is it BUG,
	  and/or is there a FIX/work around?


	Olof Franksson (olof@fysik4.kth.se)
	Physics IV
	KTH
	S-100 44 Stockholm
	SWEDEN
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From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner)
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
Organization: San Jose State University, Math & CS
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:04:05 GMT

In article <2979@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> jcollier@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (John Donald Collier) writes:
>From: jcollier@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (John Donald Collier)
>Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
>Date: 18 Aug 92 13:12:32 GMT
>In <cchapman.114.714074382@matd.gatech.edu> cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman) writes:
>
>}WP4Win is not really WYSIWYG; it's more of a pseudo-WYSIWYG.  To demonstrate
>}this select normal (non-draft) mode.  Select a proportionally spaced font
>}like Times Roman.  On the first line of a document hit TAB and type some
>}text.  On the second line of the document, SPACE over until the cursor
>}is directly under the text in the first line and type the same text.
>}If you Preview or Print the document, the text in the two lines will
>}not be lined up at all, even though they appear to be lined up on the
>}screen.  Thus, what you see is not always what you get in WP4Win.  There
>}may be other situations like this too.
>
>My father claims this is also true of MS-WORD for Windows. He sent 
>me a letter written on WFW that he says was aligned fine in the window, 
>but printed out ragged. He was using spaces rather than tabs. I told
>him to replace the spaces with tabs, but he said it was too much work.
>
>-- 
>John Collier 			Email: jcollier@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
>HPS -- U. of Melbourne		  	Fax:   61+3 344 7959
>Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052

This is actually true of ALL the Windows word-processors (not, necessarily
of the page-layout programs, however).  Ami-Pro is very close.  Look at
their current ad campaign for ver. 3 and see an example - screen and
printout - from AP 3.0 and Word for Win 2.0.  The real difference is that
WP Corp will tell you that WP4Win is NOT WYSIWYG; MS will try to 
buffalo you into thinking W4W is.

WP Corp wil tell you that they have only one WYSIWYG word-processor -
WP for the NeXT.  Take a document created in WP 5.1 for DOS or Windows,
or on the Mac or NeXT.  Print it out, then look at it on screen on the
NeXT, Mac, DOS (preview), and Windows versions.  If it has any
complexity at all you will see the difference between printout and
the screen.  Then import it into W4W (if the 2.0 import filter will
take it - about a 70-30 shot).  Look at it on the screen.  Again, if
there is any complexity at all to the document, the only one that
will compare correctly is WP for the NeXT.
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From: cap@mb5000.anes.upmc.edu (chris pilewski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WINDOCK & Brian Capson?
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:00:26 GMT
Organization: UPMC

Hi There,

Brian Capson (becap@cs.mcgill.ca) is the developer of WinDock (a 
fine Windows program launcher).  I corresponded with him a few months 
ago about WinDock.  Now he seems to have vanished.  I got no reply 
when I tried to register my copy of WinDock.  And, he has not answered 
email sent to the address he listed in the WinDock 'About' box.  If 
anyone knows of a newer email address, please mail it to me: 
pil@med.pitt.edu.

Thanx.

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