muller@munnari.oz (Paul Muller) (01/23/89)
I am from Australia as my address would point out, and have had Zortech C++ since it's release in July last year when they sent me a glossy telling me if I give them all my money they will let me have a C++ compiler and we would live happily ever after.... It appears not so, I found my C++ compiler on the door soon after, great, I found that I couldn't fill in my rego card as I couldn't find a serial #! So I rang Zortech and they said, just post it off. I rang them two months after and asked where my Zortech newsletters where, they said 'real soon now', still nothing. Now I read the comp.lang.c++ for the first time only to find, it is now at Ver 1.7! I typed ZTCPP1 and found it said 1.4! Why haven't ZTech said anything? I know this is a whing, but heck, I was under the impression they would look after me. I really admire Walter for his work and was very happy with Datalight's service, they didn't go out of their way, but they at least helped when they could. What are Zortech doing? Is it because of my location? My abscence (spel) of rego #? HHEEEELLLLLPPPPP! Now onto my second question, does anyone have any really useful C++ code that I can view and run, I hate 4 line examples that tell you how to use the function, but provide no coherent idea of what you can do with it that was not possible in C. I understand that you can do anything in C that you can with C++, but C++ should at least make it easier. Lastly, is it me or are the Flash Graphics library functions documented by monkey's? I could only understand how to use them after spending much time looking at the demo program included with the distribution disks. Sorry if I grumbled too much, Paul. PS I just remembered another grumble, has anyone seen the bug in Zed where the Menus are not always cleared away after exiting, sometimes the top line remains, using the clean-up function (update) don't help any. It begins to work again (clean automatically) after I do a compile. Odd, seems that a flag must get set during compilation that triggers the code into life.....
diamond@csl.sony.JUNET (Norman Diamond) (01/25/89)
In article <2640@munnari.oz>, muller@munnari.oz (Paul Muller) writes: > What are Zortech doing? Is it because of my location? Yes. U.S. computer-oriented companies usually do their best to contribute to the U.S. trade deficit, by refusing to export their products. Examples: Kinetics, Global Engineering Documents, Specialized Systems Consultants, Dayna Communications, and Journal of Object Oriented Programming. Most of them only ignored purchase orders or letters, but JOOP kept a bank draft. Japanese traders say that U.S. suppliers are unreliable, and in this case they are telling the truth. -- Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.jp@relay.cs.net) The above opinions are my own. | Why are programmers criticized for If they're also your opinions, | re-inventing the wheel, when car you're infringing my copyright. | manufacturers are praised for it?
maxsmith@athena.mit.edu (Samuel M Druker) (01/30/89)
I feel obligated to point out that Zortech *is* a British company, and there are many users over Europe as well as through our Japanese distributors. Samuel Druker