From: hgfernan AT usp DOT br Subject: RE: Compiling "V" 1.16 - Specific Instructions? 29 Dec 1997 20:39:35 -0800 Message-ID: <9712300407.AA37836.cygnus.gnu-win32@spider.uspnet.usp.br> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT To: "Gnu-Win32 Mailing List", Brendan Simon , vgui-discuss AT attila DOT apana DOT org DOT au Cc: "Fernandes, Hilton" On 26 Dec 97 at 12:22, Brendan Simon wrote: > > > >> Please be warned that V is mainly a Unix GUI library; its > >> support to Windows 95/NT is still to be done. People wanting to > > program for Win95/NT should take a look at wxWindows. > >> Maybe wxWindows should be added to Cygnus page. > > > THIS IS DEFINATELY INCORRECT !!! > > V has both X Windows AND MS-Windows support. Hi, Brendan! I'm sorry if i was incorrect. I appreciate the V library and its community, and don't want to be unfair with any of them. Internet and computing in general changes very quickly, so it's very easy to have information no longer current. Maybe you can help enlighten me and this mailing list about V making the necessary corrections to what i'm going to relate. I first heard about V in the famous paper by Prof. Wampler, V's creator, published in C/C++ Users Journal (Aug/96). Prof. Wampler related that he designed a multiplatform class library and was using it to teach his students about object-oriented programming and interface design. I'm a C++ instructor and i'm constantly embarrassed by the "good" o-o design principles followed in the construction of MFC. So i was very interested when i read Prof. Wampler's paper. But prudence advised me to take some time before jumping into V and preparing classes to my students. To that purpose i subscribed V mailing list and read its messages for a while. 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. Then in several messages, experienced users advised beginners that they should consider V a Unix-oriented class library. This wasn't emphatically contested then. 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. Thank you for the attention, ++Hilton ------------------- Hilton Fernandes email: hgfernan AT usp DOT br www: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~hilton.html (inactive) M. Sc. Student of Parallel Distributed Applications at Escola Politecnica (Polytechic School) University of S. Paulo - Brazil - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".