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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!emr1!jagrant
- From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- Subject: Re: ProtoGen from Borland
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.171251.10615@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <BxoA25.KrJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov15.022508.252@panix.com> <KIM.92Nov16092705@kim.Software.Mitel.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:12:51 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <KIM.92Nov16092705@kim.Software.Mitel.COM> kim@Software.Mitel.COM (Kim Letkeman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.022508.252@panix.com> rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan) writes:
- >
- >| In <BxoA25.KrJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
-
- [stuff discussing Protogen pros & cons deleted]
-
- >I found what may be a bug (but still might be my misuse of the
- >package.) I painted a dialog to serve as the main window for a small
- >test application and the application code that Protogen generated did
- >not successfully run. I received the classic error -5 indicating that
- >the dialog window could not be created.
- I suspect that this error is created by not being able to load
- BWCC.DLL for some reason. Did you generate code for OWL?
-
- >After much fumbling around I looked at the calc sample application
- >that comes with application frameworks and found that Protogen does
- >not appear to use the dialog name correctly in the handling of the
- >dialog window.
- >
- >Anyway, I changed the code by hand to match calc's mechanism, which
- >only took a couple of minutes, and everything worked fine. I went into
- >a second directory and, using everything I had learned about the
- >naming conventions to use for the icon and dialog, I regenerated a
- >fresh application. It still failed, so I don't think Protogen (version
- >2.2) handles dialog boxes as main windows all that well.
-
- Try it again, and make sure it can find BWCC.DLL
- --
- John A. Grant jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
- Airborne Geophysics
- Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
-