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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Seeking opinions on "CView" Windows C code editor
Message-ID: <5680@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 90 19:18:16 GMT
References: <1595@ashton.UUCP>
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <1595@ashton.UUCP> tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>Page 124 of the Nov. 5 90 "InfoWorld" features an ad for a $99 product
>named "CView" that is a Windows 3.0 editor for C language source code.
>(...)
>Anyway, has anyone used this?  Is it reliable?  Robust?  It seems very
>reasonably priced.  (Especially for a Windows app!  :-)  )

I certainly wouldn't buy version 1.0, which is what they've shipping now.
It sounds good except for the fact that it has a maximum file size of
34 KB!  (They aren't virtualizing the edit controls, you see.)  In my
mind, that makes it useless for most of my work.  They say that this
will be fixed in version 1.1, which should be released in a couple of
weeks.  (And they promise free upgrades.)

The other problem is that, from talking to a sales guy on the phone, it
sounds like to customize it at all you need to recompile it.  (That is,
to change the accelerators, etc.)  This is fine if you happen to have
MSC and the SDK, but otherwise you're in the lurch.

(Disclaimer: It's possible that I misunderstood the sales rep at any
point in our conversation, so consider this all second-hand info at
best.)

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me."
							- Dr. Who, _Shada_
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