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- From: coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: Screen Saver
- Summary: what Borland told me...
- Message-ID: <3844@keele.keele.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 08:24:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.151143.1548@msdhsv.ingr.com> <1992Aug19.213227.8458@wam.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Keele, England
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug19.213227.8458@wam.umd.edu>, kovert@wam.umd.edu (Todd Kover) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug17.151143.1548@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com writes:
- > >Borland C++ & AF on-line helps has a topic about screen saver. It
- > >mentions SCRNSAVE.LIB and SCRNSAVE.H files but I could not find
- > >these files. Why is that?
- >
- > Because Borland forgot to include them.
- >
- This is not what I was told. I wrote to Borland UK about this and got a
- fax from Brian Long in their technical support. It said (quoting verbatim):
-
- "The help file you are viewing is licensed directly from Microsoft. As such,
- there may be occasions where inaccuracies can occur with our product. The
- reference to the screen saver files is one of those times.
- "Unlike most .LIB files that are used under Windows, SCRNSAVE.LIB is not
- an import library for a DLL, but is a static library. Because of this fact,
- it cannot be linked with Borland C++ (due to inconsistencies in internal
- run-time library helper functions etc.). As such, it was not shipped with
- the product.
- "However, you might like to take a look at the OWLSCRN project in the
- \BORLANDC\OWL\EXAMPLES\SCRNSAVE directory for an example of a screen saver
- implementation."
-
- I did not really understand this explanation. If anyone could explain
- what this means I'd be grateful.
-
- > Last I heard they were going to be making them available on their BBS and on
- > CompuServe.
-
- This seems to contradict with my message from Borland. If the files are
- available, could someone ftp them to cica?
-
- Mark Scase coa44@keele.ac.uk
- or coa44%keele.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
-