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- From: Hans Glitsch <hans@phoenix.phoenix.net>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will BC5.0 make 16 bit Windows 95 lookalike Windows 3.1 applications ?
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:28:35 -0500
- Organization: Micro Nation Software
- Message-ID: <313209E3.202C@phoenix.phoenix.net>
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- Matt Arnold wrote:
- >
- > craiga@netcom.com (Craig Arnush) writes:
- >
- > >marnold@netcom.com (Matt Arnold) writes:
- > >>
- > >>Is this support only for OWL apps, or has Borland somehow gotten the
- > >>16-bit COMMCTRL.DLL to work under Windows 3.1? For example, using
- > >>this Borland "emulation", could I write a "normal" Windows 3.1 app and
- > >>get Windows 95 controls?
- >
- > >That's exactly what the emulation gives you. When writing a program for
- > >Windows 3.1, you can have some of the Windows 95 controls via OWL's
- > >emulation.
- >
- > I meant "a normal Windows 3.1 app" to mean "a non-OWL 16-bit Windows
- > app".
- >
- > So your answer then is that this Windows 95-like control support is
- > an "OWL thing" and I can't use it generically in any 16-bit program?
- > OWL must be used to access the emulation.
- >
-
- Your whole program doesn't have to use OWL. You could write the parts
- that use the controls in OWL and leave the rest of it in regular C if
- you want. OWL doesn't interfere with regular old C type windows
- programming.
-
- >
- > In any case, has Borland gotten the *actual* 16-bit COMMCTRL.DLL (the
- > one that comes with Windows 95) to work under Windows 3.1, or is this
- > emulation purely just that: code, totally from Borland, that creates
- > controls that look like Windows 95.
- >
- > Regards,
- >
-
- I went to the Borland presentation on BC++5.0 that was held here in
- Houston, Texas a few weeks ago and my understanding is that Borland
- wrote their own code to emulate(imitate) WIN95 controls in windows 3.x
- programs. It looked very good.
-
-
-
- --
- Hans
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