Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!borland.com!sidney From: sidney@borland.com (Sidney Markowitz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Turbo C++ update Keywords: turbo update Message-ID: <1991Mar8.044013.2366@borland.com> Date: 8 Mar 91 04:40:13 GMT References: <198@valid.valid.com> Organization: Borland International Lines: 38 In article ersys!chowells@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Corvil Howells) writes: >micki@napalm.valid.com (Micki Stone) writes: >> As for question >> 2... if you want to develop windows applications that are textually based >> (no editing of graphics in the window), you can do that without the >> Microsoft sdk. The upgrade has a Whitewater kit that allows the >> development of windows graphical elements like scroll bars, buttons, >> windows, etc. > >Could I get more clarification on the above description. I just got the >upgrade notice as well and was seriously looking at ordering it. Is it >really limited to only textually based application development? If so, No, no, no! Squash that rumor! Read Micki's message again: He/she is totally confusing the issue by talking about windows (with a small "w") when everyone else is talking about Microsoft Windows (with a capital "W") and then throwing in more confusion between the Microsoft SDK and the Whitewater Resource Toolkit on top of that. To put it clearly: Borland C++ has everything necessary for the production of Microsoft Windows apps that run in standard and enhanced modes. Real mode apps seem to be possible if you really want them, but that capability is not officially supported. The Microsoft SDK is not necessary, although there are a couple of components in the SDK that are not duplicated in the BC++ package. I posted a more complete description to the net, and later someone posted a quote of a similar message that I had left on Compuserve. Refer to those if you can for details. I'm sorry if I'm sounding a little commercial, but after seeing two such responses to Micki's garbled posting, I just had to jump in. Now how about asking questions about Borland C++ over on the tcplus-l mailing list on listserv, or comp.os.msdos.programmers and letting this newsgroup get back to being about the C++ language? -- sidney markowitz Borland R&D : but not an official spokesperson for Borland