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- From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
- Subject: Re: A question or three.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.063442.5520@unlv.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 06:34:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.160829.7216@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- >Some OS/2 1.x books can be gotten. They are useful to learn concepts,
- >but you'll need a 2.0 reference (like the on-line one shipped with the
- >Toolkit) in order to get the sample code to work in 32-bits.
-
- I checked out a copy of _OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming Primer_
- (Asael Dror and Robert Lafore) and found (to my great pleasure) that
- the example can be compiled with GCC exactally as they are in the book
- (!) I have only tried the non-EMX version of GCC (what did we decided
- to call that?). This book is copyright 1990 and only covers OS/2 1.2.
-
- BTW: It is a pretty good introduction as far as I can tell (knowing
- nothing about PM programming except what I have read in this one book)
- except that the authors have a slightly annoying habit of talking
- about things and then saying that they aren't going to talk about
- them... An example is "A combo box is an edit control with a pull-down
- list of choices. An MLE is a multi-line entry field box. We won't
- discuss these controls. [...] You can also define your own controls or
- purchase controls created and marketed by different firms. We won't
- explore these possiblities here."
-
- The phrase about not exploring possibilities must have been mentioned
- 3 or 4 times by chapter 8...
-
- Anyway, now that I'm done bitching, the important part was that the
- examples DO compile and I don't have any OS/2 references at all
- (unless you count the Redbooks).
-
- --
- Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
-