Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.programmer:3637 comp.windows.ms.programmer:1059 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!fernwood!shograf!jim From: jim@shograf.COM (jim morris) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0 (Debugger in windows) Message-ID: <553@shograf.COM> Date: 28 Feb 91 03:10:35 GMT References: <5907@iron6.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Distribution: na Organization: SHOgraphics Lines: 35 From article <5907@iron6.UUCP>, by yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates): > dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) writes: >> The windows debugger IS a windows >>application, and YES!!! you can debug with only one monitor. However >>they tell you in the manual that if you're using VGA, they support >>standard VGA, not super or the psuedo 8514 resolution you can get with >>the drivers floating around now. > > Pardon my ignorance, but I thought a major benefit of windows applications > was that they used library routines which make them display-independent. > .... Well the BC++ debugger does run when windows is running, but it is not actually a windows application, its more like a DOS application that is being very friendly with windows. It runs full screen and looks and feels exactly like it does running under DOS. I don't know exactly what they have done, but it is NOT a windows App therefore it is not display independent like a windows App. I actually tried to run it while in 800x600 mode, it runs fine... But windows is screwed up when you exit as the video mode has been changed to character mode not graphics, and windows doesn't realise this and therefore doesn't reset the 800x600 mode. Still its a lot better than no debugger at all!! its even better than running a debugger on a separate system (Which you can still do). Still playing so can't review it yet..... Jim -- Jim Morris, E-Mail: jim@shograf.com Voice: (415) 903-3887 _ SHO graphics. Practical PEX