Kevin Ring wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> IBM is introducing OpenClass, which is an application framework for
 MB> OS/2 and Windows 32-bit, but which does not support Windows 16-bit.
 MB> It is very new, but seems powerful at first glance.

 KR> From your descriptions, this seems like the way to go..  Is
 KR> this something that would only work with a specific
 KR> compiler, or would it be possible to use it with Watcom or
 KR> Visual C++?  (the only two I have access to, right now) 

I have no idea.  You could ask IBM.

 KR> (sorry if this is a stupid question.. I'm very new to the
 KR> world of Windows and OS/2 programming.)

I must not be that stupid a question; I don't know the answer either, so
there are at least two of us.

 MB> My advice is to look at MFC as throwaway effort, worth only what
 MB> you are being paid to use it.  It is not an especially friendly
 MB> tool, it tends to be incompatible with itself from one version to
 MB> the next, and has a number of features which simply do not work. 
 MB> You will also find that many otherwise simple tasks require you to
 MB> use the Windows API directly, since MFC is a rather thing wrapper
 MB> around the native Windows API.

 KR> This is unfortunate... :(  I guess I'll just have to get
 KR> through this project as quickly as possible in order to move
 KR> on to bigger and better things.. 

On the other hand, MFC is a lot of fun if you are the sort of person who
likes doing jigsaw puzzles with the pieces all the same color.
 
-- Mike


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