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From: newlin@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Captain Kludge)
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Subject: Re: Doubts on TP 6.0 updatating being worth the while
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Date: 9 Jan 91 19:48:40 GMT
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From article <19416@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater):
> In vairous articles, Kamal Z Zamli, christopher kushmerick, and Timo Salmi 
> write:   
> 
> [ Gross Summary:   TP6.0 and TVision aren't worth upgrading to ]
> 
> To make one vote against the majority opinion.  I would reccommend upgrading to
  One for me too.

> TVision:   
> While I can't say that I'm 100% in love with all of their units, they do 
> provide a building block.  I don't really care for their color selection 
> (Dialog boxes and push buttons esp.) but you have the capability of changing 
> the colors (and the users of your software can change them again if they 
> don't like your favorite colors.
> 
   One issue that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that Borland has
   a beta version of Turbo Pascal for windows.  And in all probability
   the windows version will compile Turbo Vision code and produce
   a windows program. Or a Windows program with a stub that is the
   text mode version.  I think Turbo Vision conforms to some standard
   like SAA or something.

   So I guess what I'm trying to say, is that if you are serious about
   any kind of development for windows then you should learn Turbo
   Vision now and it will make life a lot easier later.  Also after
   learning and using Turbo Vision for an application I can say
   that this was by far the easiest user interface that I ever
   developed and also took the least amount of devlopment time.

   One more thing:  Borland finally got the manuals right.  They
   stay open when you open them which is really nice.

-John

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