| diogenes 2007-10-01, 6:55 pm |
| October 1, 2007
In a recent post in another thread, Patrick Mast wrote:
> I have a big application that was compiled
> with Clipper+FiveWin+SIx3+MachSix.
Other people have occasionally mentioned using
FiveWin too.
Do you, or anyone, have FiveWin documentation,
or know where I could find some? I could use it.
I have the NG file, from 1997 or so, and I know of
www.ousob.com, which seems to have just the
same as my NG. This documentation is waaaaay
too sketchy, leaving me to do hours of experimentation
to figure things out (and not always successfully).
Is anything more complete and detailed available?
Here is my situation: I have a compiled EXE that I
use. I do not have source and cannot get it, and
cannot de-compile it (which I wouldn't want to do
anyway). It has a built-in script interpreter, allowing
me to write add-on modules and plug-ins, in
much the same way as you can do with Excel
and other M$ apps. (The scripting language is
approximately Clipper, kinda-sorta.) In my
scripts, I can call any function that happens to
be linked into the EXE, but I cannot link in any
functions that are not already there. It seems
to have most of the functions I need. But I just
barely know how to use the FiveWin functions
because the NG file is so incomplete. I would
like to make better use of these functions.
In particular, I am using the TWindow and
TControl classes and all their related thingies
to make slick custom dialog boxes and other
Winders-like on-screen displays, and I could
do much better if I knew much more detail
about how they work.
-- Jay Jaeckel (diogenes)
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