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bower@hfsi.uucp (Michael Bower Comm. ) writes:


>Could someone who has used them please compare Borland C++ 3.1 Resource
>Workshop and Protogen that Borland is also touting?  In particular what
>does each package offer that the other doesn't offer and why would I want
>both?

>Thanks in advance.

>Michael Bower
>bower@hfsi.com

These are not to be compared, they are to be used together.  
You can do everything you want without Protogen, using Resource Workshop
to design you dialog boxes, edit & display controls, icons, etc., but
then you have to write the code to make use of the windows resources
compiled by RW.  Protogen takes the resources, lets you tie them together
into a menu-driven app that you can take for a spin around the block,
and then generates the code (pretty comprehensive, although you
are left to do certain things for yourself once you want to get
down below a certain level of functionality) which you then link
with the rest of your application code, be it graphics, computation-
intensive, whatever.  The new version works pretty seamlessly with
RW, although a couple gaps remain.  I wouldn't start a windows app
from scratch anymore, even tho I could.   Resource Workshop comes
with Borland's C++ 3.1 Application Frameworks.  Protogen is extra.
Get Protogen if you want a windows gui for your app, or something like it.

= Mark