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Article #2222Re: DOS to Windows
From: Eric Bergman-Terrell
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 02:46
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 02:46
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Well I'm right in the middle of a port of a DOS application to Windows 3.0. My program has a lot of code, but few large data structures, so I don't have much advice that isn't already said better in Petzold - actually I do - if you have static data structures that aren't too big (maybe < 32k) consider making them RCDATA or user-defined resources (then you don't have to write much code to load them from disk). BTW the best part of a Windows port is throwing away all the @#$@#$ hand- crafted menu & dialog box management code as well as the @#$@$ home-grown printer drivers! Also: I am beginning to believe that the complexity of Windows application development is rather exaggerated. The time I've spent learning Windows & the message passing paradigm is much less than I'd spend writing all the things already built into Windows (e.g. on-line help)... My $0.02 Terrell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis.cs.du.edu!ebergman From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: DOS to Windows Keywords: soliciting advice and references Message-ID: <1991Apr20.024602.29466@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Date: 20 Apr 91 02:46:02 GMT References: <13728@alfred.Teknowledge.COM> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell) Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.) Lines: 23 Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of Denver Disclaimer2: for the Denver community. The University has neither control over Disclaimer3: nor responsibility for the opinions of users.