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- From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima)
- Subject: TP 7.0 with Objects
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- Organization: Silver Mountain Software
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:15:25 GMT
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- Well, TP 7.0 with objects landed on my doorstep today with a thud. A
- 12 pound, 28 MB thud. There certainly is a massive amount here.
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- The Real mode DOS compiler seems to be almost exactly the same as 6.0.
- The Protected mode compiler is new. This produces "family" mode
- binaries that can be run under the included (and freely distributable)
- DOS extender or as an OS/2 1.x binary (which of course works under 2.0
- as well).
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- The Windows compiler does not seem much different than TPW 1.5.
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- The IDE's are different. Either the DOS or WIndows IDE can be used to
- edit and compile any of the three types of programs (Real, Protected,
- or Windows). Since I like the Windows IDE much more than the DOS IDE,
- I will almost always use the Windows IDE, even when working on a DOS
- program.
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- The DOS compilers now have an ASCIIZ unit like Windows. There is also
- a WinAPI unit for the DOS compilers that emulates the Windows API for
- memory managment functions. The major effort seems to be in merging
- the core API and adding the protected mode support. The interface APIs
- (Turbo Vision and Object Windows) are still quite different. The new
- compilers should make life easier for folks wanting to share code
- between DOS and Windows (and maybe later OS/2 2.0 PM :-) :-).
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- This is definitely a "professional" package. Lots and lots of goodies
- for people who live, eat and breath Pascal. For the casual user or
- novice, it would be overwhelming. I think it's wonderful :-)
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- They did not fix my TDW bug. When I use TDW with my ATI Vantage (8514
- clone), if I ever use a menu with grayed items it leads to a GPF. I
- called Borland once about this and the guy had to cold boot his
- machine three times, but he still did not believe me. I debug with a
- dual monitor setup. The interesting thing is that TDW barfs when *any*
- menu in any program has a grayed element, not just a grayed element in
- my program. All well, I've learned to live with it.
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- I would like to hear if TP 7.0 and the new TDW can be used under OS/2
- 2.0 with dual monitors. I never could get TPW & TDW to work well and
- that is the primary reason I don't use OS/2 today.
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- John Baima
- Silver Mountain Software 1029 Tanglewood, Cedar Hill, TX 75104
- john@ling.uta.edu Voice/Fax (214) 293-2920
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