Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0 pricing Message-ID: <1991Mar6.003542.2075@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 6 Mar 91 00:35:42 GMT References: <1991Feb15.041246.15904@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <36990002@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca. Lines: 23 In article <36990002@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> martin@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Martin Wink) writes: >/ hpopd:comp.windows.ms.programmer / yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) / 7:13 pm Feb 26, 1991 / > Other windows >applications seem to run on anything as long as it has a windows driver.. >whats the deal with the debugger? >---------- > >The debugger flips the screen to a character mode for the debugger interface, >and back to graphics for when Windows is free-running. > >I guess it was easier to do it this way than to start from scratch with >a windowed debugger interface. The new single-screen CodeView does the >same. > Just got mine, haven't tried it yet, will it use a second mono monitor ala CVW instead of flipping screens? I hate to install the standard VGA driver instead of the 800 X 600 driver I use just for debugging. gRuss Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254