MD>  >The IDE of Guidelines is very comfortable and efficient,
  >  >but the C source code it generates looks more like C rather
  >  >than C++. :-(( I think I'd prefer OWL for OS/2 whenever
  >  >it's released. (In 10 years??)

MD>Who knows how the new ObjectPM is going to be. Perhaps they'll adopt the OWL
  >2.0 which they have with Borland C++ 4.0. ClassExpert also
  >generates the sourcecode, but OO'd.
  >Why's Guidelines still using normal C? Why doesn't JBA go
  >with the time? Guidelines is more or less a kind of
  >Visual Basic.

Well, if you actually look, quite a bit of their libraries are CLASSES.
This is C++, not C.  The outputed generated code is ACTUALLY C++ code
because it uses all of these classes.  Take a peak at the HEADER files,
they'll tell you the truth.

MD> > Objects will
  > > not speed up anything, the code will execute with the same speed...

MD>Oh!! I know. Perhaps faster. I didn't talk of speed. I was refering to
  >extensibility. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think you cannot do
  >everything out of Guidelines. You still have to use certain
  >C funtions. When I'm about to insert large parts of C++
  >code,then I wouldn't want to use Guidelines' "C:" keyword.
  >An application doesn't merely consist of the user interface.

That's why I will go into the Borland C++ IDE and write my
external/extra code there, sometimes compiling it and using the OBJ file
as an external file under Guidelines, or sometimes making the DLL file
and using the LIB file as an external file for Guidelines and then I
just call the functions located there.  For example, I am developing a
STANDARD DIALOG BOX class for use with Guidelines (and anything else for
that matter) with several other items such as custom templated file
boxes designed to select directories, and more.  See, you still have
EXTENSIVE flexibility in your usage of Guidelines and the more you try,
the more you see you CAN do!  But nothing beats all the +'s Guidelines
gives you!

Michael Douglass
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