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From: pcb@basin04.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
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Subject: Borland C++, are you telling me there are no WIN Classes?
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Date: 4 Mar 91 14:47:54 GMT
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This is a repost.  The responses I have received are not clear.  Does
Borland C++ come with a set of class libraries for windows programming?
i.e. window, button, bitmap, controls in general....  I suspect this is
not the case.

Or is Borland C++ just SDK protocol compatible.  That is, if I have 
the lib specs from C/SDK, I can make the same calls under borland c++.
Which of course means that the Petzold book is not enough...all of the
functions are not covered in here...rather I need the MSC SDK references.
I have sdk and actor (and smalltalk), so I have the function descriptions,
but if I just had borland c++ I would be stuck!

So in summary, I have a C++ development environment that generates
windows applications and is itself pseudo-windows compatible.  But my 
graphics and gui development will be from scratch.

Is anyone working on classes?  Will the zortech, or glockenspeil classes
work? i.e. Can I just copy them to a new directory and compile them into
borland c++?  Is this legal?

My copy of borland c++ is still in the mail.

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