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From: brianw@spider.co.uk (Brian Wyld)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: ap, Windows BASIC
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.122952.3993@spider.co.uk>
Date: 24 Jun 91 12:29:52 GMT
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From: kblackne@mcs.drexel.edu (Ken Blackney)
>The windows of other applications show through between the VB
>windows.  When you activate another application then click on
>a VB window, only that window comes forward; to bring the whole
>application to the front requires clicking in each open window.

>The "Window" menu shows names for each window.  Choosing one of
>these items makes the window appear or hide.  VB never shows a
>check mark next to those windows it is showing.

>Maybe Microsoft did this to convince the FTC that its applica-
>tions group is not only not talking to the system group, but
>not even reading the documentation they put out.

>(Dear Microsoft: Had anyone who worked on Visual Basic ever
>seen a commercial Windows application?  Had they ever read the
>documentatio?  And who is this "Cooper" company?)

I read a review in Personal Computer World (this month's) (thats
a UK mag BTW) which said that the window app style VB uses
is a "new standard" MS kind of made up to kind of superceed
the MDI style. Mostly cause in MDI the frame can restrict the children
and so you have to scroll about.

Actually I thought that was the whole idea, but for Win 3.1 the new
VB style is "in". 

This came from the article, so I don't know how reliable it is but
PCW usually get it right.
I guess this could show the FTC that the apps group are in bed with
the system group :-).

Brian Wyld
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