On (27 Dec 94) david begley wrote to Roy McNeill...



 db> On Dec 26, 1994 at 21:25, Roy McNeill of 3:711/934.16 wrote:



 KR>> i am doing the same thing with c++ and owl to write a windows prog,

 db> the

 KR>> learning curve is so steep that i think that i need a rope and

 db> pitons.

 RM>

 RM> Agreed again - I wanna write the pc user interface (DripTalk) for

 RM> my evolving sprinkler controller (Drip) in BC++Win, but the

 RM> learning curve cut so deep that I'm currently using a bad mixture

 RM> of dos based libraries, because I wanna get the thing running

 RM> before the second coming.



 db> Ahh, you guys have got it easy .. try programming in C++ for Windows using

 db> Microsoft's MFC 2.5 Class Libraries - there's a nightmare you're not likely

 db> to forget!



 db> Anyone got a spare Chinese Water Torture set (w/ steak knives) that I could

 db> borrow?  I'm looking to relax over the next week, after struggling for the

 db> past few days to convince MFC that I really *do* want a dialogue box as my

 db> application's main window (and do so without playing games with passing

 db> Windows messages).



 db> *sigh*



i looked at microsoft's offerings and decided that, although i dont mind

people thinking that i'm mad, i draw the line at being thought stupid,

so i bought borland instead. may have been a waste of time though (-8



                        Keith



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