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- From: lee@cpu.us.dynix.com (Lee Crites)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: BP7--colorized source code....
- Message-ID: <34942@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 21:19:33 GMT
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- I just spent some time trying out my new copy of BP7, and am quite
- impressed with several points. I do, however, have some questions about
- it. I am using the TURBO command (DOS REAL MODE) for all of these:
-
- * I chose different colors for each category, just to see how it worked.
- I noticed that STRING showed up in the reserved word color, but INTEGER,
- WORD, LONGINT, and CHAR did not. Is this a bug, or do I just not
- understand what is happening?
-
- * When I tried to use DPMIINST, it ran fine. It even told me to send a
- copy of f9b18c13.db to Borland so that it could be included in the next
- release. (Am I unique in this, or did everyone get that?!?) Anyway, I
- can boot up BP, and get a screen, use some of the FKEYS, read in a
- program, etc, but when I try to use the menu bar, it hangs. The only
- keystroke sequence that continues to work is Alt-X (fortunately). It is
- no different when I use the keyboard or mouse. I get the pull-down menu,
- and nothing else. Am I missing something here? I am using DR-DOS v6.0,
- 4meg of RAM, 386SX/25. I can run BPW just fine. Bye the way, I did set
- up my CONFIG.SYS so that it conformed to the requirements stated in the
- installation instructions.
-
- * The new compiler, touted as compiling 85,000 lines per minute, seems to
- be no faster than my TP6 compiler. I compiled all of my last three
- commercial software packages just before installing BP7, timing each, and
- then re-compiled them all right after (with TURBO). The difference was
- less than a second, if at all, on my largest source file (6800 lines,
- including comments). Is the TURBO.EXE compilation engine the same?
-
- * I have seen two things that seem to contridict each other. First, the
- new TV documentation discusses some differences in the physical
- size/format of the TObject, etc. A couple of places in the documentation
- also state that BP7 is backward compatible. Which is supposed to be
- right? I can tell you that I had to recompile ALL of the UNITS from TP6
- before they worked with my BP7 programs, so I have a feeling that I know
- the answer already.
-
- All of these points might be solved by one simple setup/configuration
- parameter, but after spending many hours reading through my loads of
- documentation, I can't find it.
-
- Thanks for your help in these matters.
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