Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!news From: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: TCXL problems (was: shareware C graphical windowing library needed) Message-ID: <1991Jan2.134248.28946@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 2 Jan 91 13:42:48 GMT References: <5153@trantor.harris-atd.com> <688@helios.prosys.se> <1990Dec27.181940.6338@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> < <694@helios.prosys.se> Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab Lines: 45 In article <694@helios.prosys.se>, ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) says: > >In article ecollins@nmsu.edu (Edward Collins) writes: >> >>I dowloaded TCXL551.ZIP from WSMR the other day and was able to build >>the demo with turbo c/c++. The include file shows up missing because >>of a typing error in the demo( i assume ). > < Much Deleted > >Again, I suppose source code is necessary to use it. > >In all fairness, though, TCXL 5.5 is probably in transition. It has >changed since CXL 5.2, and several bugs have been fixed. I suspect it >will be a lot better when it has stabilized a bit more. > >-- >Anders Thulin ath@prosys.se {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath >Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden I contacted the mirror site and downloaded tcxl551.zip. There are quite a few additional functions and they all seem to do the job quite well. I particularly like the new SelStr function. The old one worked fine, but you were not able to scroll through the entries (or at least, I never needed to before and do now). Now it creates a window and allows you to scroll, pgup, pgdn, etc. It really fits into the current project. My biggest problem is they have changed the format of some of the functions and added all kinds of new stuff. It's really kind of confusing. I suppose that I'll get it working and like it as he says in the docs. I think the 5.51 package was intended for the old users of cxl. And by demo, I was talking about the way he distributed it. Mike assured registration by sending out only the small version and if you needed the larger version, you needed to register. All in all, I think it will still do the job. Carl Schelin tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu