Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/04/22/03:29:22
Yes, you can create windowed apps (with windows GUI) very easily with C++
Builder that comes form Borland/Inprise. In fact, C++ Builder is a visual
development environment just like Visual C++ (if you heard of it).
As for DJGPP, it's a compiler for DOS, so you can't do with it windows programs.
but you may find some nice libraries that will make your DOS program look like
winodows one. :)
Good Luck
Alexei A. Frounze
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Phil wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I started to work through a book called 'First Course in C++' [Mark
> Harman] using DJGPP as my compiler. However, I've just flicked through a
> book in a cheap shop which supplys 'Borland C++ Builder' software and
> explains how to use it as well as a rudimentary course on C++. It
> seemed to me to be much easier to use this software to create Windows
> programs which have GUI boxes, forms, windows, icons, etc. My current
> book doesn't explain any of that, and the programs I create are executed
> in a plain old DOS box.
>
> Can anyone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of using Borland (I
> don't even know what this is; a langauge or a company?), and if I can
> easily create Windows GUI's using DJGPP?
>
> Thanks.
> Phil.
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