Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To   : Sarah Nunez
From : George White
Date : Tue Jul 16 2002 12:26 am


Hi Sarah,

On 13-Jul-02, Sarah Nunez wrote to David Noon:

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DN>> Newer cuts of OS/2 have the DTK on the install media. Its
DN>> location varies with version, but will usually be located under a
DN>> directory named TOOLKIT.

SN> I'm not finding it on my Warp 4 CDs.  Can you give me some
SN> filenames?

I've just gone through my WARP4 GA CD and it isn't on there
anywhere...

DN>> Once you introduce a C++ application framework you end up writing
DN>> a truckload of little subroutines and a little bit of glue code
DN>> to join them to the AF's common code. It looks butt-ugly, but it
DN>> is easy.

SN> I'm already used to programming in a fairly modular fashion.  Is
SN> this what you mean

DN>> The three AFs that support OS/2 and Windows are all free for the
DN>> download. I suggest you try wxWindows, as it supports LINUX and
DN>> *BSD, as well as OS/2 and Windows.

SN> Where do I download it?

I've got the YACL framework here, and there are a number of bugs in it
that I've identified, and I've not ploughed far enough through the
source to eradicate them (some are quite tricky). So that's one to
avoid, especially as the author devised it, wrote it up as a book and
then abandoned it :-(.

George

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