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From: wallis@sieras.enet.dec.com (Barry L. Wallis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++, are you telling me there are no WIN Classes?
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Date: 6 Mar 91 21:15:35 GMT
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In article <91064.202956ISSHST@BYUVM.BITNET>, ISSHST@BYUVM.BITNET writes...
>There are no classes for Windows programming in Borland C++.  Zinc is working
>on porting their class library to Windows.  It has a wonderful set of classes
>for user interface designing.  Rumor has it that once the Windows class is
>completed, source written for the DOS library will need only one line of the
>source to be changed and then re-compiled to run under Windows.

I was looking at the source code examples that came with BC++ last night and
was pleasantly surprised. Some of the examples rolled their own C++ Windows
classes. I will be printing them out and studying them this week (in my
copious spare time) to see if they are something decent to start building
with., 

They also included a single chapter WINPRIMR.DOC in the DOC subdirectory.
However, my copy is incomplete (some of the sentences have been cut but not
pasted) and inaccurate (it says _export will inhibit C++ name mangling, looking
at the .OBJ this does not seem to be the case, I need to use extern "C" { } so
my exports can be seen by the RC).

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