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- Path: sparky!uunet!telxon!kenl
- From: kenl@telxon.uucp (Ken K. Lambach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Protogen Code Generator
- Message-ID: <893@telxon.UUCP>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 11:22:47 GMT
- References: <2386@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1992Jul22.220615.20744@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
- Sender: news@telxon.UUCP
- Reply-To: kenl@telxon.UUCP (Ken K. Lambach)
- Organization: Telxon Corporation, Akron OH
- Lines: 37
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- >
- >I have PROTOGEN 2.0.
- >
- >The information on their ad is missleading.
- >You have to read its ad very carefully. It reads(line 14 of the white half
- >page ad):
- > ... preserves all of the code you add to this framework ...
- > ^^^
- >But, I can not simply ADD code. The source code generated by it deos
- >not give you any way to transfer data in/out dialog. You have to
- >modify the source code. Your modification will be gone when you back
- >to use it. I wrote a small C program to preserve my changes. But I
- >have to add more and more features to my C tool to do what I want. So
- >I gave up. I did not order 2.1 version when I ordered BC++ 3.1.
- >
- >If you want use it as a prototype generator, it works.
- >
- >I have to say: the name is not missleading: PROTOtype GENerator, not CODEGEN.
-
- I also have PROTOGEN 2.0 (just got the 2.2 upgrade yesterday !). I am a
- little confused by your comments. Are you saying the code you enter in
- your application is changed if you change your menus from Protogen ?
-
- If you add your code only within the delimiters generated in the source
- code by Protogen, your code will not change if you change the way the
- menus work. I have done this repeatedly without any loss of code.
- When I was first learning to use Protogen, I mistakenly added some
- code outside the delimiters and yes, I lost the code when I changed
- the interface. I then re-read the manual, and sure enough, it was
- documented (sorry, I don't have my manual here to quote pages).
-
- By the way, the upgrade to version 2.2 was only $5.00 with the
- upgrade from BC++ 3.0 w/AF to BC++ 3.1 w/AF.
-
- Now if the OS/2 version of BC++ would be released :-). Sorry about
- that, no flames please.
-
-