-> Hello Matthew,
->
-> 22 Aug 97, MATTHEW DUHART of 1:307/8 wrote to JAVIER KOHEN
->
-> [ a lot snipped ]
-> MD> Yes. And just last night, I had the program working. Except
-> MD> it wan't working correctly. Slow since this is a 386
-> MD> computer, but other than that, when it showed the buttons,
-> MD> they were off line in 3-D and when you push the button, it
-> MD> was also off line in 3-D. It would only show a few keys. If
-> MD> you want to see the program, I'll show it to you in a
-> MD> message.
->
-> If I remember correct, you where trying the calculator example from
-> Robert Lafore's 'Object oriented programming in TC++', wasn't it?
->
-> Well, I hate to say this, but there's an error ( I don't dare to say
-> typo again  ) in the listing in the book. I have had this myself
-> when I first started with C++ and this code. You have to recalculate
-> the several window coords of the buttons in calc_app.cpp, to let the
-> calculator look like it should. If you can't figure it out, tell me,
-> I see if I can find the old corrected code thingy I have here
-> somewere...
-> While on the subject of this book, there's one other hickup in some
-> code on page 232. It's an example of a static variable inside a
-> class. The example oversees the fact, that a static variable needs
-> to be declared outside of the class definition. In this case the
-> line: int foo::count = 0; is missing. No bad words about the rest of
-> the book though. ;-)
-> Greetings from sunny Amsterdam,
-> Jan
-> email:bijster@worldonline.nl
-> http://www.worldonline.nl/~bijster
->
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Sure, I'd love some help on the calculator thing...that is if it's not
too much trouble.
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