cphoenix@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Chris Phoenix) (02/08/89)
I am currently using Turbo Pascal 4 to write a long program that is very graphics-intensive. There are many bugs and inadequacies in Turbo 4. Is Turbo 5 any better? Some of the bugs: If a bar is drawn with the ends outside a viewport on opposite sides, the part inside the viewport will not be drawn. The bitmap text is not clipped on the left-hand side of the viewport, but it is on the right. If a disk access is tried without a disk in the drive, random problems appear such as system crashes or wiping out parts of the compiler so it munges your source files when it saves them. Trying to get/putimage with a 1-pixel high image (NOT 0-pixel) has no effect. Some of the inadequacies: Not nearly enough fonts, and the existing ones are ugly. Not enough graphics support--No Xor drawing, no regions, etc. I'm sure people are aware of these problems, I'm just telling which ones are important to me. Can anyone tell me which if any of these problems are fixed by turbo 5 and/or one of Borland's supplementary products? Thanks, Chris Phoenix cphoenix@portia.stanford.edu