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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Wierdness and Bugs in Borland Products
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:10:44 GMT
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.

32JJCB3@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU (Brent Langdon) writes:
:      In his posting, Clayton says that his borland-style buttons don't work.
: I don't know where your problem lies.  I use Windows 3.1 and I have no
: problem using the BWCC dialogs.
: 
:      In another note:  Has anybody noticed that in Borland Turbo 3.0 for
: Windows, if the main window is not maximized and you have a text window
: that is bigger than the main window but also not maximized, when you
: use the cursor to scroll down the last text line on the screen is repeatedly
: scrolled up.  Once you let the key up, the window is repainted as it should
: be.  Not that big of a deal but sometimes little bugs such as that make one
: wonder just exactly how reliable the entire product is.
: 

The windows API is somewhat slow in many respects. To overcome this, certain
tricks are used to optimize things. Sounds like Borlans does something similar
to what I do in a COMM program I wrote. Use ScrollWindow to scroll the window,
and let Windows put WM_PAINT messages in the queue to refresh the parts that
are exposed. Since the WM_PAINT's don't happen right away, you get a look
similar to what you describe.

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From: richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:12:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Goodbye UAE?
Organization: The Duffer of St. George
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer

/ hpopd:comp.windows.ms.programmer / pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) /  4:26 pm  Apr 15, 1992 /

>What I can't understand is why I'm now getting all sorts of new "UAE"s
>from programs I've been using successfully under Win3.0.  Xtalk for
>Windows is one I regularly get.  

It may be that Windows 3.1 is uncovering previously hidden defects.

For example, we discovered a defect in our code related to the freeing of
an explicitly loaded DLL. This defect didn't cause a UAE in Windows 3.0a,
but did in Windows 3.1. (We were calling a function from a DLL which then
explicitly freed the DLL; as we returned from the function to hyperspace
we UAE'd. It seems that freeing DLLs is "more synchronous" under 3.1 than
under 3.0a.)
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From: Brad Taplin <btaplin@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Sound in 3.1
Summary: The correct directories...
Keywords: Sound
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:41:33 -0500

Brian somebody recently uploaded what he calls a C-like
language with sound extensions to wuarchive.wustl.edu.
WAVEPOOL.ZIP is the file, and if you lack Soundblaster
you may also need to get SPEAK.EXE. These can both be
found in pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS. Maybe also get VOC2WAV.ZIP
from mirrors2/win3/uploads to convert voc files to wav.

I just read about it in another newsgroup and would
greatly appreciate knowing what people, particularly
experienced programmers, think of this sound package,
by either post or e-mail. Hunting for sound shareware.
			*pun*
From: phe@farallon.com (Ping He)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: need help for 3C505 card
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:53:06 GMT
Organization: Farallon Computing, Inc.

I got a 3Com EtherLink+ (3C505 ) card and tried connect my machine to our Novell server. Since I couldn't find the manual with the card, I tried couple of times without luck. Here is my problem:

after following commands:
lsl
3c505
ipxodi
net5

I got the following messaage:
"A File Server could not be found"

I make sure the server was on. ( I tried from another machine )

the jumper settings on my card were:
int 9
dma 5
port 310
mem cc000

I also tried different jumper combinations but failed.

Could someone help me out?

Thanks.

Ping
From: joed@hplsla.hp.com (Joe Diederichs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: VB -- "Help" at right end of menu bar?
Date: 1 Apr 92 20:03:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: hplsla.16180009
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA

In a VB application, is there a way to get the last item in the menu bar,
in this case (as usual) "Help", to appear at the right end of the menu
bar, like it does in most windows app's?  The menu items in my program
appear together left justified in the menu bar.

Thanks,
Joe Diederichs
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair BANKS)
Subject: Re: Int21 vs Windows
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:58:01 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <266570022@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock) writes:
>/ hpopd:comp.windows.ms.programmer / ms-isv@uunet.uu.net (Microsoft - ISV Archive) /  3:22 am  Apr  3, 1992 /
>
>>Each time you call an Int21, we do work behind the scenes to map
>>it - its much better if you use the "Dos3Call" API, better
>>still if you use a native Windows API.
>
>Sounds good to me.
>
>By "better" do you mean quicker (and/)or forward compatible?

Both quicker, and more forward compatible -- Alistair
From: stacey@desktop.nsc.com (Stacey Toland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Catching WM_KEYDOWN within a Child window
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:39:19 GMT
Organization: PLD Software Group, National Semiconductor Corporation


	I have a parent window and a child window. When I'm in the
	child window I can capture Mouse messages but not WM_KEYDOWN 
	messages. Instead, the parent window will capture it.

	Is there a way to solve this problem?


	Thanks,
	Stacey
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From: pdchapin@amhux1.amherst.edu (Paul Chapin)
Subject: WINDEBUG.DLL and Windows 3.1
Organization: Amherst College
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:37:54 GMT

I've just installed Windows 3.1 and tried to use the TurboDebugger for
Windows that comes with Borland's C++.  It gets as far as trying to
actually load the executable and gives me a "Can't Load WINDEBUG.DLL"
message and then dies.  I wasn't having any problems with Windows 3.0 
and the DLL file is the same place it always was.  Has anybody else seen
this problem?  Trying to get through to Microsoft is nearly impossible,
which is to be expected this close to the 3.1 release.
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From: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Subject: Re: MDK WaveEdit
Reply-To: aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Peter Haller)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 23:23:55 GMT


In a previous article, aruggeri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony R. Ruggeri) says:

>The MDK (Multimedia Development Kit) for WIndows includes a program
>called WaveEdit for recording and modifying .WAV files.  However,
>the SOund Recorder included with Windows 3.1 is not nearly as
>powerful.  Does anyone know where I can get WaveEdit without the
>entire MDK package?
First, WaveEdit wont run under 3.1. According to MS support on CI$ this
is being addressed. Second; I don't think it is sold seperatly from the
MMSDK. Third; Get Wave for Windows from Turtle Beach. This is a very powerful
package and only costs $149. 

PCH
-- 
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Imagination Processing Systems		|	have always done,
aa596@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 		|	expect what you have
"Are we having fun yet?"		|	always recieved.'
From: richi@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Jennings)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:04:58 GMT
Subject: Re: DOS is dead.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NSG-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer

        Imminent death of DOS predicted - film at 11!

Yup, I can almost hear the entire 386 installed base re-working their
'93 capital budgets right now.  Oh, yes.

richi.
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From: wilcox@wucs1.wustl.edu (Don Wilcox)
Subject: BorDlg problems?
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:06:57 GMT

I just got my copy of 3.1, installed in on my computer, and fired up the app
I just finished fixing the last :-) bug in.  The first dialog box comes up, and
all the fields are mis-aligned.  As we have already begun preparing for dist-
ribution, I have a small feeling of panic as I work through to another dialog
box.  It too has all the fields misaligned.  Thinking that perhaps I have made
some heinous mistake, I fire up Borland's Resource Workshop, to see if perchance
their dialogs are wrong.  They are.  So here's my question:  does anyone know
when Borland will be releasing a fix for BWCC.DLL that doesn't screw up the
dialog boxes.  We ran a study to determine that our use community preferred the
graystyle to Microsoft's default white on black, so changing back really isn't a great option.

I know, all developers were supposed to get into Microsoft's beta program, but
when we started this, we never dreamed we would actually end up with a product
someone might buy, so we didn't want to get involved in beta-testing 3.1.  Boy
was I stupid.

thanks,
Don Wilcox                         | "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of
Washington University in St. Louis |   Christ, for it is the power of salvation
email: wilcox@cs.wustl.edu         |   to all who believe."
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From: ejs@borland.com (Eric Swenson)
Subject: Re: Depth of control (Borland vs. Microsoft)
Organization: Borland International
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:22:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.165043.1860@pictel.com> geiser@pictel.com (Wayne Geiser) writes:
>Is it possible to get the same level of control over windows with the
>Borland compiler and their ObjectWindows AF as it is with the
>Microsoft compiler and SDK?  I want to be able to get down to the
>"real nuts & bolts" of windows in order to do a non-standard
>application (i.e. it won't look like the examples in Borland's
>documents, maybe like nothing in the Petzold book, either).  Can I do
>it with Borland's compiler?

ObjectWindows does not prevent you from using any of the Windows APIs
directly.  In fact, since OWL doesn't currently encapsulate any of the
GDI functionality of Windows, for example, you have to use the Windows
API directly for GDI.  You can freely mix OWL code with standard C calls
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From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: grey scales on a color monitor?
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:01:10 GMT

>
>You may be having trouble since you are using a logical palette with
>256 entries.  What video card are you using?  Is it SuperVGA?  This
>guy will only support 64 levels of grey scale so you should set your
>palette to something like
>
>   for(i=0;i>64;i++)
             ^=== should be i<64 of course.  ack.


--
McCreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com     Computers are like Old Testament gods;
Me? Speak for Compaq?  Yeah, right.   lots of rules and no mercy.
                                                             Joseph Campbell
From: magid@ocf.berkeley.edu (Paul Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: What is a .lib file?
Date: 14 Apr 1992 17:47:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

Excuse my ignorance but my programming platform of choiceis TPW.  There is a 
program in the SDK which I am trying to port to TPW that uses a .lib file.
What is this files format and how can I use it in TPW?
Thank you.


Paul
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico de Vries.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Advanced DOS execution from windows.
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:34:18 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

I am aware of the WinExec function. It is capable of calling an DOS executable
from windows. It does switch to text mode, execute the program and then
returns to Windows. I want to have something better, is this possible?

- possibility to make DOS program invisible (Windows keeps visibile, no
  way to see DOS program is running)
- redirect DOS output to some file for postprocessing
- even better DOS program in parralel with windows program interpreting
  its output.

Has anyone ever investigated such thinks. It would enable integrating
DOS tools (e.g. all kinds of filters) into windows programs etc.


Nico de Vries
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From: jjcarett@daisy.waterloo.edu (Jacques Carette)
Subject: Profiler blues
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:41:10 GMT

   I'm using SDK & C 6.0.  My problem is that in windows.h, all the profiling
functions are declared as PASCAL, but in the library libw.lib, the names
are exported as lower-case ==> thus the linker, no matter what I do, can't
find those functions.  I badly need to profile my app, so I do I get those
#$%&#$%^ functions linked in?

Jacques Carette
Product Developer, Waterloo Maple Software
jjcarett@daisy.waterloo.edu
From: richardh@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Richard Hancock)
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 10:23:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Memory Allocation Woahs---HELP, Please
Organization: The Duffer of St. George
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer

/ hpopd:comp.windows.ms.programmer / Martin_Schloeter@eurologic.fido.de (Martin Schloeter) / 12:34 pm  Apr  3, 1992 /

>...
>Your guess is right. The total number of handles it limited to 8192 in
>enhanced mode and 4096 in standard mode (Windows uses only _one_ LDT).

Two minor points :- the LDT and GDT may both contain 2^13 (ie. 8192) handles;
I wasn't aware that only the GDT is used in Standard Mode (in fact I
hope very much that it's not).
From: wood@Software.Mitel.COM (Dale Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: How can I gain access to any MSJ bulletin?
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:03:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Mitel Corporation; Kanata, Ontario, Canada




	I read in my March - April issue of Microsoft Systems Journal that
'All the source code can be found on any MSJ bulletin board-Ed.'.

	The problem that I have is that I do not know any MSJ bulletin boards
and am unable to contact MSJ for direction. 

	I have a modem and I have access to this network. I do not think 
that I have access via FTP?


	Could someone tel me how/where to access an MSJ bulletin board?


...Dale Wood
wood@Software.Mitel.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: krumke@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (krumke)
Subject: Re: Resource Workshop include dirs...
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:38:14 GMT

From article <1992Apr15.154820.29857@apollo.hp.com>, by aaa@APOLLO.HP.COM (Simon Fowler):
> In article <29EB48AD.4CD5@tct.com>, jeff@tct.com (Jeff Witzer) writes:
> |> First, thanks to all of you that assisted me in my Windows/Communications
> |> problems.  Since you seem so helpful, I thought it wise to again consult 
> |> you for advice...
> |> 
> |>     In Borland's Resource Workshop, windows.h is continually unresolved.
> |>     How can I define include directories for RW to search?  I found no
> |>     help in the manual...
> |>     
> |> Thanks in advance,
> |> Jeff 
> 
> I ran into this too. The only workaround that I found was to set the
> environment variable (INCLUDE)? to point to the appropriate directories.
> I'm not at the system, so I cannot get the full info at present. 
> this is documented in the manual somewhere (one line or so!!).
> 
> simon

Hey Dudes!

You can set up the include path with an option in the "FILE" main
menu of the borland workshop. Sorry I'm not at the machine now, but
you should select the "FILE"-menu and then look out for "settings" or
something like that. (As there are not too many items in the "FILE"-menu
you should be able to find a corresponding item). I was also stuck with
the problem and was able to fix it like that. I have to say that I'm using
the German version of the workshop and the English version might be
different.

Sven
From: mar19@cl.cam.ac.uk (M.A. Ramage)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Windows 3.1 speed problems with word processors
Summary: WordPerfect and Word for Windows are slooow under 3.1 ...
Keywords: 3.1, speed, word processors, Word, WordPerfect
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:39:37 GMT
Reply-To: mar19@phx.cam.ac.uk (Magnus Ramage)
Distribution: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

We've just had 3.1 installed in my college (yesterday), and while it looks
good and seems to be much better than 3.0 in many ways (I haven't used OLE
or multimedia support yet, but it looks better, the File Manager is a _lot_
better - almost as good as the Wordperfect one now, though not quite for 
deletion), there's a problem with word-processing. 

We have both Word for Windows 2.0 and WordPerfect for Windows on the network
here, and they seem to be running like a drain - everything takes two or three
times as long to happen. It's put a couple of people off the entire thing of
3.1 just in the couple of days since we got it, and there's serious talk of
going back to 3.0 because of it (one member of college staff with his own PC
has already done so). It seems to occur on both 386s and 486s, though not on
all 386s. 

Anyone got any idea what might be going on, and how we can cure it? It would be
a shame to see such a fine new system removed for speed reasons. 

Thanks, 
Magnus Ramage

----
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: ejs@borland.com (Eric Swenson)
Subject: Re: Could someone post when TDWIN31.ZIP gets to wustl
Organization: Borland International
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:02:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.193908.87162@cs.cmu.edu> clay+@cs.cmu.edu (Clayton Bridges) writes:
>I looked on wustl, and even went to SIMTEL to find the Borland/Win31
>fix files (TDWIN31.ZIP, TI868.ZIP, TPWN31.ZIP), but to no avail. Could
>someone post when these are up, especially on wustl.

I'm not sure of the upload policies at wuarchive.wustl.edu, so I may have
committed a faux-pas, but I just uploaded ti868.zip, tdwin.zip, and
tpwn31.zip wuarchive.wustl.edu in the /pub directory.  I can't
guarantee that they'll stay there for any length of time since I don't
know how wuarchive handles its uploads.  In any case, we've also
uploaded these files to simtel20, but they haven't become visible yet.
When they do, they will automatically migrate to the TURBO-C
subdirectory on wuarchive as well.  Let me know if you don't find them
there.  

-- Eric Swenson (Borland Languages R&D)
From: mwizard@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Craig R. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Psychotic Dialog Box Problems! BC++ 3.0 Freak?
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:21:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.5277


>An even simpler way is to just link with /borlandc/lib/bwcc.lib.  This seems
>to cause BWCC.DLL to be loaded into memory during your program's startup.

Not all the time.  Borland suggests you call BWCCGetVersion() from 
wherever your program starts to ensure the DLL is properly loaded
before the program attempts to use any of the other more exotic
features.  This information is in the BWCC-OWL.DOC in the OWL/DOC
directory.

=============================================================
|  Craig Nelson , OO Programmer    mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu  | 
|  CC Software, Inc.		   Beaverton Oregon  97005  |
=============================================================
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From: jkb@ms.uky.edu (Keith Burton)
Subject: Do You Write Custom Printer Drivers?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:19:09 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Bytes: 

I need a custom Win 3.1 printer driver written. We have two PostScript 
printers connected to a Buffalo printer sharer, used by a number of PCs.
The two printers have a total of 5 paper trays, and I need to treat them as
a single, 5-tray, PostScript printer in Windows. Three of the trays contain
various letterheads, and it's routine to need to have a single WfW file 
have to print page 1 to one printer, page 2 to a different tray on the other
printer, then the rest to another tray back on the first printer...

There is a simple 7-character sequence used to select one printer or the other.
These selection sequences can be placed anywhere, subject only to the printers
each ending up with a proper PostScript file.  In addition, since print speed
is not a critical concern and adequate disk space is available, it would be 
fine to use multiple workfiles and reassemble them into separate print jobs
to be routed to the individual printers/trays.  All that really matters is 
combining the two into a single "virtual" PostScript printer.

If you have source for a Win3 PostScript printer driver and would like to 
license it to me, or if you would be interested in doing the customizing
yourself, please contact me at jkb@s.ms.uky.edu.

I am also interested in hearing from people who can do custom WPD files for
the existing PSCRIPT.DRV (for another project).

Thanks!
Keith Burton

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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Subject: Re: Free resources
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 02:45:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.150100.7070@icd.ab.com> jaz@icd.ab.com (Jack A. Zucker) writes:
>Is there a program or sequence of functions to retrieve the amount
>of free resources ? I want to make sure my program is releasing
>resources correctly.
>
>-Jaz
>
>-- 
>
>                       (Chasin' the Trane)
>
>| Jack A Zucker                              {uunet}!jaz@icd.ab.com |
>| Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.                    or  ICCGCC::ZUCKER |
>| 747 Alpha Drive                                                   |
>| Highland Hts., OH 44143 Phone(216) 646-4668   FAX: (216) 646-4484 | 
>

The Windows 3.1 Resource Kit includes some useful programs, including the
one you want:

1.	prog. that displays amount of free resources, memory, & disk.
2.	prog. that displays bitmaps.
3.	prog. that monitors SmartDrive performance (very good).
4.	prog. that monitors networks

The Windows 3.1 Resource Kit is available directly from Microsoft.  I don't
have the number handy.

Terrell

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