From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Foundation Class help needed
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:28:56 -0500
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Ian Chapman wrote:
> >
> > I'm starting to look at this subject.  On the commercial side there is
> > OWL and MFC.  On the dj side there seems to be sword and tvision.
> > There are also a few others that I've pulled off the web.  They all
> > have one common feature ... I get stuck.  The header files depending
> > on which one I pick have so many basic typos that I'm certain to be
> > missing a BASIC step.  Also I do not know what I'm doing which does
> > not help.
> 
> Are you saying that the header files are buggy, or that the
> documentation and comments are badly written?  

i have tried anything from pdcurses to sword. except for the now famous
line in bank.s in allegro, i have not encountered a library that failed
to compile simply by typing make, so i don't think that the header files
are buggy.

> If the latter, then you
> really don't have any recourse except to talk to the developer of the
> library or try to find additional documentation on the net.  Or find
> somebody who does understand the instructions and get him to > "translate" them for you.  :)
>

by all means do so. however, i should point out that the documentation
and sample programs that come with these libraries are adequate to get
you started. obviuosly there are some spelling mistakes and the
vocabulary used by the authors sometimes depends on their native
language but not so much to make anything incomprehesible.
 
> >      What is the best to start with on the dj side tvison or sword?  I
> > guess I need a cook book to boot me in the right direction so that I
> > can pick up on the subject.

> Hard to say, as I haven't used either.  ;)

i haven't used tvision. however, i can say that i like sword very much.
it doesn't come with a comprehensive manual but it has sample programs
for almost everything. on the other hand, if you would like a text based
interface, then jptui is pretty good, too.

sinan.
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