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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, CFC User)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++, are you telling me there are no WIN Classes?
Message-ID: <4468@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:27:34 GMT
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In <28193@spudge.UUCP> johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) writes:

>Borland C++ does not come with class libraries for Windows programming.
>Until you or someone else comes up with a class library for this you have
>to make normal SDK calls.

You could buy the ImageSoft CommonView libraries.  They are a set of class
libraries for MS Windows 3.0 programming.  Window classes, Edit classes,
event managing, etc.
They've been available with the Glockenspeil compiler for a while.  Now
their available for ZC++ and BC++.

>>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.

>Yes.

Not if you get the CV libraries.

>>                               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?

Hmmmm...  You must be talking about the CommonView class libraries. 
I have them for Glock, and I have to purchase them again, at full price,
for BC++ (pretty good libraries, but having to buy them twice is a
ripoff if you ask me).  I'm going to try to re-compile using my old libs
to see if it can be done.  It seems like it would, given the libs are in
DLLs, so all you need to do is link in the import libraries.  But with
C++ name mangling, who knows?
As far as it being legal, I'm no lawer, but it seems to me that if you buy
it, it's yours.  As long as you don't let other people copy and use the libs
I'd think it would be OK (Disclaimer:  I am not a lawer, so any legal
advice is conjecture on my part.  Consult a professional!).

- Jim Ruehlin