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- From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Protogen Code Generator
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:33:57 GMT
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- mickey@sfera.kharkov.ua (Mickey Serg Antonoff) writes:
-
- >twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Tim Parsons) writes:
-
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- >> Having recently registered my Borland C++/AF 3.0, I got a call from a
- >>Borland rep offering Protogen for $49.95 (regularly $495, she said).
- >>Does anyone know if it's worth getting, what it's particularly suited for?
- >>It'd have a money-back trial period, but I'd like to know if it's something
- >>to seriously look into, before I make even such a modest leap. I've scanned
- >>back issues of PC Week, etc., but info is pretty sketchy. Thanks.
-
- >>Tim Parsons (twpunix@bsu-cs.bsu.edu)
-
- > Hi !
-
- > I guess, that if You plan to do a serious work then You have nothing to do
- >with it, 'cause it is (as the most of such environment) too simple to do
- >smth. larger than
- >main()
- >{
- > printf( "Hello world !!" );
- >}
-
- > With the best wishes,
- > Mickey <mickey@sfera.kharkov.ua>
-
-
- Actually, I like it a lot, myself. If you are familiar enough with
- the OWL interface (which is a C++ interface with Windows resources)
- you can pretty quickly slap together your menus & dialog boxes
- with Resource Workshop, and then pull them together using Protogen,
- which will then generate code for "running" your interface. Then
- you need to link in your function calls etc. with the generated code.
- Protogen requires much less learning curve than OWL or Windows, so
- IMHO it's worthwhile if you do Windows programming using BCW 3.1.
-
- Once you generate your first "final draft" of your interface, you
- may find it easier to make tweaks to the code yourself
- rather than have Protogen regenerate.
-
- CAVEAT: Get the newest release of Protogen for BCW 3.1 ... it is much
- MUCH improved over the older version. Note also that the new version
- (in my experience) will not run correctly with BC 3.0.
-
-
- = Mark
-