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From: scottn@cpqhou.UUCP (Scott Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Programmer's toolkits for OS/2 PM
Summary: case:pm does not add much value to pm programming
Message-ID: <488@cpqhou.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 06:00:00 GMT
References: <17051@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
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In article <17051@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, lau@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Patrick Lau) writes:
> In reply to a question on OS/2 Programmer's Toolkit, Scott Nesbitt writes:
> >I have found that case:pm to be pretty useless.  It does not
> >provide any extra service that is not easy to make yourself.
> 
> I am also thinking of buying case:pm. Could Scott be more explicit about
> the above claim? Does anyone else have any opinion on case:pm?
Well, you cannot create a subclass or a child window under case:pm without
going in and directly modifying their code. Anything non-standard must be
done manually.
It appears to me that case:pm
provides the equivalence of the first two weeks of learning pm programming.
If that is worth the price to you, then you may find case:pm to be a good
purchase.

To me, the essentials are:
- thorough knowledge of C
- Advanced OS/2 Programming by Ray Duncan
- Programming the OS/2 Presentation Manager by Charles Petzold
- the toolkit  (I know of no difference between Microsoft and IBM)