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- From: chard@borland.com (Richard Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: A bit about BP7
- Summary: BP7 Windows stuff
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.185559.2269@borland.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:55:59 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.133118.12708@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov11.012258.27466@borland.com> <1992Nov12.113333.1@research.ptt.nl>
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- Originator: chard@genghis.borland.com
-
- >The question is as follows:
- >I have TPW 1.5, with Application Frameworks. Will BP7 give me the
- >same tools for windows programming (debugger, AF, etc) or have these
- >tools been improved? In other words: Why Should I Upgrade, given that
- >I do windows programming from within windows?
-
- Sure. There are some significant improvements in the Windows area.
- First, I'll just say that BP 7.0 includes upgraded versions of all the
- same tools that are in TPW 1.5, including a new IDE (BPW.EXE),
- debugger, Resource Workshop, etc. There are also a few more tools,
- including a profiler for Windows, a very nice utility called WinSight
- that sort of peeks at all the messages running around in Windows, and
- WinSpector, a post-mortem debuging aid that helps track down UAEs.
-
- Second, there are some real enhancements to the tools. The most
- notable addition to the development environment is the browser, which
- can display your object hierarchy, variables, etc., and help you
- navigate through your source code. [The DOS environment has one of
- these, also.] The SpeedBar has also been improved.
-
- Third, there are additions to ObjectWindows. The most important ones
- are objects for handling printing and data validation. The data
- validators are identical to those used by Turbo Vision. There are a
- few more little tweaks to ObjectWindows, and much improved
- documentation.
-
- I think that covers the highlights of the Windows portions of BP 7. I
- suppose I should also mention one other point, which is that the
- DOS-hosted IDE can produce Windows apps, so you don't HAVE to be in
- Windows to work on Windows code.
-
- And one last note: BP can also produce DLLs that run in DOS protected
- mode that can be shared with Windows apps. So you can put code that
- isn't platform-specific into shared libraries and then use it from
- either DOS or Windows apps.
-
- Hope this sheds some light for you.
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