Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/30/07:47:38
"Fernandes, Hilton" <hgfernan AT usp DOT br> wrote:
> On 26 Dec 97 at 12:22, Brendan Simon <BSimon AT randata DOT com DOT au> wrote:
>
> > V has both X Windows AND MS-Windows support.
>
> From what i could see, in that times (circa 1996) several people
> were having problems with V's window implementation. I'm not saying
> that V didn't compile, but people related that in some cases V didn't
> work correctly under Windows.
I've had better luck with V under Windows than V under RedHat 5.0 for some
odd reason (some of the built-in X dialogs, for instance, file selection,
misbehave).
The biggest drawback to V is that the widgets available are currently limited
(no multi-select comboboxes, no trees, and some limitations on creating lists
on the fly, IIRC), but for simpler programs, it's an excellent framework to
work with.
> I thought that was still the case when i read V's page: they say
> that Windows support is still missing.
>
> Maybe that was just a misunderstood, but i'd like to ask your opinion
> about it.
As of V 1.15 and 1.16, it works with both Win16 and Win32, at least with MS
Visual C++ (1.52 and 5.0, respectively), and I have compiled a program I
wrote with both (and, for that matter, Linux/X11). V is slightly persnickety
on data alignment and pointer sizes in Win32, but the distribution comes with
project files for MSVC and Makefiles for Borland C++ (I don't know which
versions).
There have been consistent and reported problems mixing V with the Cygnus
windows stuff, though. I don't have details, since I haven't tried it
myself.
--
Mike Phillips, msphil AT widomaker DOT com
Home Page: http://www.widomaker.com/~msphil/
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