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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, CFC User)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: CommonView2 and Borland C++
Message-ID: <4484@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 17:37:14 GMT
References: <196.27de0a65@mwk.uucp>
Organization: NCR Corp., Systems Engineering - San Diego
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In <196.27de0a65@mwk.uucp> archuleta@mwk.uucp writes:

>Any comments/experiences on the use of the CommonView2 class library ?

>Has anyone used it with Borland C++ ?  How about those with Zortech C++ ?

I've been using CommonView for about 4-6 months with the Glockenspiel
compiler.  I've run into a number of bugs that has now stopped my
development.  I can't even load my program (It's only about 3-4k lines long).

It seems pretty clear to me that the problems are with Glockenspiel, not
CommonView.  In fact, I'm buying CommonView for Borland C++ now.  I don't
expect the same problems.

CommonView is, IMO, a well thought-out class library for coding Windows 3
applications.  It has a few minor shortcomings and some speed problems
(I initialized a multi-line edit object with 32k of text - it took almost
two minutes), but all in all I like it.  You need very little windows
programming knowledge (handles, locks, etc. are all hidden from you) and
the classes provide most of the functionality you'ld expect from them.

My recommendation:  Thumbs up.

- Jim Ruehlin