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In article <1990Jul12.202632.21275@arnor.uucp> oleg@ibm.com writes:
>
>Does anybody know what is Microsoft hot-line number for the C
>compiler problems like that ?
>
>Oleg Vishnepolsky
>IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
If the people at IBM T.J. Watson can't get ahold of Microsoft, lord help
the rest of us!!!!

Actually what has happened is that they still have phone support, but
you have to make a toll call to find out what it is.  They'd much rather
you waste a bunch of money signing up for their on-line help service, which
is priced at a level only affordable by corporate programmers whose bosses
have more money than sense.



--
Kent Williams                    'Look, I can understand "teenage mutant ninja 
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu    turtles", but I can't understand "mutually 
williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu      recursive inline functions".' - Paul Chisholm

In article <1990Jul12.202632.21275@arnor.uucp> oleg@ibm.com writes:
>
>Does anybody know what is Microsoft hot-line number for the C
>compiler problems like that ?

I have bad news for you.  Having used MSC 6.0 for (what was going to be)
production material, I have found 2 Fatal compiler errors and once found bad
code being generated.  The total hotline support from MS has been "your error
is on file".  They refuse to give out bug lists and they have no patches.  In
other words, if you use MSC 6.0, tough luck.  These were for real, repeatable,
short bugs.  I hate to see what they might do for subtle bugs.

  I would strongly advise going back to 5.1 until 6.1 comes out if you have the
choice.  I had to strip out all the 6.0 features I foolishly put in when we
realized that 6.0 wasn't safe or supported in any real way.  Luckily, my boss
(who warned me about switching from 5.1) is fairly forgiving, despite the lost
development time.

			Tom West

In article <1854@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu.UUCP (Kent Williams) writes:
> They'd much rather
>you waste a bunch of money signing up for their on-line help service, which
>is priced at a level only affordable by corporate programmers whose bosses
>have more money than sense.

Now! just what do you mean by "more money than sense", I happen to think 
ONLINE is worth every penny paid! And I'm not a manager!
-- 
Jack 		Computer Support Corporation		Dallas,Texas 
Hudler		Internet: jack@csccat.lonestar.org  

I need help with a PM and C programming problem.  I am using OS/2 1.2 annd Microsoft C 6.0.

I am writing a program that needs to include simple editing (i.e. copy and paste) functionality.  I have Petzhold's book.  But it does this with vio calls and I need to use gpi calls.  I can't seem to get the mouse to select the exactly correct text.

	Has anyone out there in the vast reaches of the os2 world written this code with gpi calls?  Does anyone know if the IBM supplied editor uses gpi calls and if I can get a copy of that section of the source code?  I need to use gpi rather than vio calls because we need to display text in multiple colors.

	There must be someone out there that is using this PM junk.  Is there no one at Microsoft or IBM that reads this mail and wants to help?  I am a man and I have developed a real bad case of PMS (presentation manager syndrome) and I don't like it!!!!!  Please help!!!!

Sincerely Jeffrey Graber  703-883-5851

OS/2 1.2 & beyond contains a new PM class called MLE, Multi-Line Edit.

This is the control class which the PM Editor in os/2 1.2 uses, with
style bits indicating scroll bars.

So the editor is really just a regular window, with a simple
menu and the main window is just an instance of MLE.

MLE allows for a choice of foreground and background colours,
but only on a per-window basis, not per-word.

MLE allows full cut and paste operations, with keyboard and
mouse.

Sadly, I cannot offer the sourc code to MLE as a working example
but would ask that if MLE is not sufficient for your purposes,
that you realise that a PM mouse message only returns the
position, and that you have to relate that position to any
text character using your own algorithms - there really cannot
be a general solution for all arbitary GPI based text output!

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft