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- From: john@utafll.uta.edu (John Baima)
- Subject: More impressions of *Borland* Pascal 7.0
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:54:39 GMT
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- A few more notes on *Borland* Pascal.
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- Borland split the WObjects unit into smaller ones. I'm sure this will
- be good for the long term, but it is a pain to change umpteen units.
- That's a negative. Read the READ.ME file!
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- The ObjectBrowser and related items (Views for Objects, Units,
- Globals, Symbols) is stupendous. Really, it is worth the update if you
- have medium to largish programs. I have a few programs in the 10's of
- thousands of lines and these utilities will make life much easier. I
- learned object oriented programming by learning Smalltalk 80 almost 4
- years ago. I had always longed for the Smalltalk 80 integrated
- environment tools when programming in Pascal. No more. The BP Windows
- IDE is really first class. You must see it to understand how nice it
- is. One minor caveat is that I'd like more control over the fonts used
- in the browser dialog boxes. On my screen, the fonts are too small.
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- If you have wanted to add a Toolbar to your apps, a nice Toolbar Unit
- is included as a sample app. Nice.
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- In order to use the Toolbar, you really need to use Resource Scripts
- (RC files) rather than the compiled RES files. I wondered what would
- happen if I included a resource with $R TOOL.RC rather than $R
- TOOL.RES. I got a GPF. Not recommended :-(
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- All in all, I think (after only a couple of days) that Borland Pascal
- is a wonderful product for professionals or people who do a lot of
- Pascal programming, especially OOP.
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- Let's have an OS/2 version now, PLEASE!! :-)
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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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