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- To: mcmullen@cica.indiana.edu,
- TWETZEL@ucs.indiana.edu
-
- Do you know of an MS-Windows computer that might be loaned to me
- for a week or two, for software development? I would also need
- either Borland's or Microsoft's C/C++ compiler for Windows on it.
-
- If I can get my hands on such a machine then I can test and make
- available a multi-platform C++ application development library (Mac,
- X-Window/Motif and MS-Windows). I've been working on this over
- the holidays, and have it going on Mac and Motif, but lack
- an MS Windows machine.
-
- I'm going to make this software source freely available to IU
- and the public in general. It may be of interest to your/other
- groups at IU. You can see a demo application written on this
- application library: ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, folder
- /util/dclap/preview.
-
- I'm most interested in getting hands on an mswin computer this
- month, the sooner the better, as I'm running out of time I can
- spend on development (until next vacation).
-
- Thanks, Don
-
-
- ------ a summary --------
-
- My holiday gift to the world is a bit delayed, but here is a peek
- at it:
- a C++ application library, built on NCBI's Vibrant and core
- toolkit, for software developers. Don's Class Application library
- (DCLAP) will let me, and others if they want, write applications
- in a relatively easy way, using this oop application library.
- The applications will compile and run on any platforms that NCBI's
- Vibrant toolkit supports, that currently being Macintosh, MS-Windows
- and Motif-XWindows.
-
- MyApp-sparc-motif was compiled on my Sun Sparcstation, using a Motif
- library. It requires, I believe, the shared motif run-time libraries
- on your Sparc system to work.
-
- MyApp.hqx was compiled for Macintoshes.
-
- I don't have an MS-Windows system (yet), so can't provide
- that version.
-
- The source for this C++ library will be made available free to the
- public -- but it still needs much work.
-
- This tidbit is at ftp.bio.indiana.edu:/util/dclap/preview
-
-
- This is built on the cross-platform toolkit from National Center for
- Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine (
- NLM), called NCBI toolkit, and especially the Vibrant window system
- subset, plus the coretools subset. This toolkit is written in ANSI C,
- and compiles on a variety of systems. The source for NCBI tools is
- available for anonymous ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov as
- cd toolbox\ncbi_tools
- bin
- get ncbi.tar.Z
- quit
- This has much more than the subset with DCLAP, including detailed
- documentation. Most of the additional source is directed toward
- manipulation biosequence data.
-
- The NCBI toolkit compiles & runs on following platforms. DCLAP has
- been tested so far on Mac (think c 6/sym c++) and Sun-Sparc w/ Motif.
-
- MS-DOS/MS-WIN
- Microsoft C version 7.00
- Microsoft Windows version 7.00
- Borland C++ 3.1
- Borland C++ 3.1 for Windows
- Mac
- NCBI toolkit tested on THINK C 5.0.4 and MPW C 3.2
- Unix
- NCBI toolkit tested on Sun Sparc, Silicon Graphics, IBM 3090 with AIX
- with X-Motif
- VMS w/ Motif
-