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Re: ProtoGen from Borland

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From: John Grant
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:12
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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
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From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
Subject: Re: ProtoGen from Borland
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