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- From: jere@uta.fi (Jere K{pyaho)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
- Subject: Screen Saver Library and BC++ 3.1
- Summary: What happened to the screen saver files?
- Keywords: Windows Screen savers Borland C++ 3.1
- Message-ID: <6464@kielouta.fi>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 07:14:42 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
- Lines: 42
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- Could someone from Borland clarify for good what the real issue
- about the Windows 3.1 screen saver API is about?
-
- Case in point: reading the documentation for the Screen Saver
- Library in the on-line help file included with Borland C++ 3.1,
- one sees references to files called SCRNSAVE.H and SCRNSAVE.LIB.
- One checks out the file list for BC++ 3.1 only to find out that
- no such files are included.
-
- First someone said the files were forgotten from the distribution.
- That information came from Borland, if I recall correctly, with
- claim that the missing files would be put on CompuServe or somesuch.
- Not long after that a person relayed information from Borland U.K.'s
- tech support; the files were not included in the distribution
- because of technical reasons (calls to internal MSC run-time
- helper functions etc.)
-
- Now, screen savers are not the most important programs in the
- world, I grant it, but they're important enough to build an API
- (at least a sort of) for them. Can us Borland users have the
- opportunity to write a few savers now and then, complete with
- password options and all, sometime in the future?
-
- Of course there is example code included with BC++ 3.1 for
- writing screen savers - with the ObjectWindows library.
- But what if OWL is too big for such a little thing? What if
- you don't want to use the (somewhat bulky) DLL and the
- class library? I would assume that Borland could have gotten
- the source code for the Screen Saver Library in their
- cross-license agreement (or whatever) with Microsoft, just
- compiled the stuff with BC and put it into a library. Why not?
-
- I hope we can put this topic to rest - with two silly files,
- I could have written a six-pack of savers in one afternoon,
- instead of harassing our local tech support and using my
- Internet account as a soap box.
-
- How's that for my ECU's worth,
- Jere
- --
- /* Jere K{pyaho -- jere@kielo.uta.fi -- University of Tampere, Finland */
- /* Department of Translation Studies -- Department of Computer Science */
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