Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!oneel From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: OV in a world of its own? Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 13:23:17 GMT References: <1991Jun9.113517.7534@topaz.ucq.edu.au> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa Lines: 28 In-reply-to: enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au's message of 9 Jun 91 02:25:05 GMT In article <1991Jun9.113517.7534@topaz.ucq.edu.au> enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Peter Enzerink, UCCQ, Australia.) writes: I have been using Borlands Object Vision with a view to using this for an application. After spending some time designing a screen and my logic trees I hit a complete stumbling block. How do you communicate with the world outside Object Vision? Object Vision has read only DDE links available. I can't write data to other applications, I can't call other programs. This seems to be a significant failing in an otherwise interesting product. The $99 cost seemed a bargain, but is this just a trap to get people using this product and then forking out upgrade monies to get a version that has some communication ability? On that note, HAS anyone heard of a new version in the pipeline? For now I think I'll have to move to TPW or BC. Are there any database toolkits available for either of these compilers? Borland sells the Paradox toolbox for TPW, BC++, etc.. bruce -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664