kb36+@andrew.cmu.edu (Keith Douglas Beiter) (12/08/89)
Hello again Netties!
Weeeellllllllll, I was wondering if anyone out there has any opinions on the Database and Graphics toolboxes that Borland sells. I'm trying to find out what they can do and if they are worth buying.
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End.raj@pic.ucla.edu (Shiladitya Raj Chaudhury) (12/08/89)
Regarding Kevin's question about Borland Turbo toolboxes: When I wrote a graphics application under Turbo Pascal 3.0 the Graphix Toolbox was a great help in defining windows and what not. With the arrival of the Graph Unit of TP 4.0/5.x, pretty much everything we needed to do in writing an on-line real time data acquisition system (at least the user interface part) was taken care of - our version 4.0 Graphix Toolbox gathers dust to this day. This is my limited, but first hand experience with the subject. --Raj Chaudhury UCLA
granoff@decwin.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) (12/08/89)
I have all the Borland Toolboxes. I am writing an application now,
which uses and will use
(application isn't done yet :-) the Database Toolbox. In case you don't
know, it provides routines
for managing a database (both high and low level routines) with keys.
It also includes routines
for quick sorting that work quite nicely (in my opinion).
What would be nice is if the same toolboxes existed for Turbo C (from
Borland); I think I'd rather
be writing my application in C than Pascal, but, cest la vie!
In general, I think the Database toolbox is a good hunk of code.
(I have all the toolboxes because I bought TP Pro; I saved money, but
have no use for most of
the toolboxes, e.g. numerical methods, game works, tutor...)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (12/09/89)
In article <21684@adm.BRL.MIL> raj@pic.ucla.edu (Shiladitya Raj Chaudhury) writes: >With the arrival of the Graph Unit of TP 4.0/5.x, pretty much >everything we needed to do in writing an on-line real time data >acquisition system (at least the user interface part) was taken >care of - our version 4.0 Graphix Toolbox gathers dust to this day. While i agree that the graph unit takes care of a great part of Toolbox functions, especially in terms of being a device independent low-level kernel, I still think the world-coordinate based windowing of the Toolbox is something to drool over. I'd like to write the low-level stuff in the Toolbox using graph.tpu and then use the Toolbox like one always did. This way, one even gets runtime flexibility w.r.t. graphix card. -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________
ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (12/09/89)
In article <6729@shlump.nac.dec.com> granoff@decwin.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes: >In general, I think the Database toolbox is a good hunk of code. I know of a 100% commercial application of about 35k lines of Pascal which worked perfectly fine with Database Toolbox. It was a relational schema, too. Interesting: the main reason the authors chose Database Toolbox with TP4 over competition was speed! -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu The more things change, the more they stay insane. _______________________________________________________________________________