From: "John Meyer" To: Subject: RE: Beginner help: Borland c++ and DJGPP Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:39:09 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3900976F.AD5C16BC@address.sometimes.in.message.body> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk However easy it is to make Windows programs using DJGPP, it is a thousand times easier to do so in Borland. Borland C++, and more specifically, VCL, provide a fairly easy to learn frameworks within which you can develop Windows programs. Both are very good programs, and neither is completely exclusive of the other (you don't have to choose one or the other to reside on your hard drive). -----Original Message----- From: Phil [mailto:Email AT address DOT sometimes DOT in DOT message DOT body] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:01 PM To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Beginner help: Borland c++ and DJGPP 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.