elletson@snowbird.crd.ge.com (Paul A Elletson) (03/05/91)
I'm about to begin development of a GUI using Microsoft C 6.0 and
the OS/2 Presentation Manager on a Northgate 486 machine (25 Mhz) with
8 meg RAM. I would welcome any advice on the following:
(1) useful software development tools to simplify and speed development
(2) training courses offered which focus on software development using
the OS/2 Presentation Manager
Thanks,
Paul Elletson (elletson@crd.ge.com)joeb@hpnmdla.hp.com (Joe Barnhart) (03/07/91)
For what it's worth, I've found the best tools for PM development are the IBM Developer's Kit (not the MS one) and Smalltalk/V PM. I prefer the IBM developer's kit because it contains more information than the MS one, combining what MS calls the "Developer's Kit" and the "Device Driver Kit." Plus, it has the docs on OS/2 v. 1.3, which MS doesn't offer. Last, IBM is more religious about updating their kit and making that update available to developers at low cost. Smalltalk/V PM is a fantastic environment for "interactively" testing PM programs. You can sit at the keyboard and find out how each PM function works by invoking it and inspecting the results. This is better than Codeview 'cause you don't have to go through the edit/ compile/link phase every time you want to try something different. Smalltalk/V PM does NOT replace the need for an SDK, however. -- Joe B. #include <standard.disclaimer>
kim@watnow.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) (03/09/91)
I would go with something more user friendly and powerful than just
MS-C and the dev toolkit. We're looking at getting Object/1 which is
an object oriented toolkit (similar to C and C++). Its advantage is
that you don't have to learn smalltalk, I suppose.
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T. Kim Nguyen kim@watnow.waterloo.{edu|cdn}
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Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Home of a Lying Administration and a Censored Alt.* News Feedschweigl@edvvie.at (Johnny Schweigl/2113674) (03/12/91)
From article <17310@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, by elletson@snowbird.crd.ge.com (Paul A Elletson): > I'm about to begin development of a GUI using Microsoft C 6.0 and > the OS/2 Presentation Manager on a Northgate 486 machine (25 Mhz) with > 8 meg RAM. I would welcome any advice on the following: > > (1) useful software development tools to simplify and speed development I'm currently using Glockenspiel CommonView along with Glockenspiels C++ 2.0 which enabled a non-PM programmer (me!) to write a small application in a week. The ease of creating and using graphical dialog elements stunned me. Possibly a PM whiz can comment on this? Besides, Commonview code should be portable between PM, MS Win 3.0a and Motif. Of course you must use C++, but it's no pain to learn. Second, I have a flyer from a german company, ISA, which describes a tool called 'Dialog Manager'. It seems to be a sophisticated GUI builder that interfaces to C, C++, Fortran, Pascal and, sigh, COBOL. Ports to MS Win 3.0 and Motif also. ISA can be reached at info@isaak.uucp If you get more info, would you please summarize to the net? Regards, Johnny
fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart) (03/21/91)
Are there any OS/2 PM static analysis tools in existance which give a graphical display of a program's calling hierarchy. The type of program I am looking for is something similar to Image Soft's C View under Windows. Thanks in advance. -- Fred Hart Fred.Hart@AtlantaGA.ncr.com