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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: BC4.0 AppExpert: How to use?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 17:55:55 GMT
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- roger_morris@vneb.ibm.com wrote:
-
- : I've had BC4.0 for sometime, and I'm trying to learn OWL. From
- : what I understand, AppExpert makes GUI programming easy, if you
- : know what to do.
-
- That's oversimplifying things. If you know OWL and Windows
- programming, AppExpert makes it easier to generate skeletons
- with lots of canned code. You don't have to start from ground
- zero each time, you can start from ground one.
-
- Start by learning OWL first (actually start by learning straight
- Windows first, then OWL!), then worry about AppExpert later.
- Better yet, just use Delphi and skip a few years' worth
- of learning curve! All OWL does is make the message-passing
- paradigm of Windows look a little different. Delphi will
- give you more bang for the effort.
-
- : Could someone give a brief overview of AppExpert,
- : and how it can make my life easier, or rougher.....
-
- Basically it gives you a skeleton of canned code for
- toolbars, status bars, About... dialogs, OLE support, etc.
- You write all the important code.
-
- Scott
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