The available HELP with PB/DLL 6.0 on the subject of DDT is obviously not the complete story which one might expect in a Programmer's or User's Guide or equivalent. Someone with more extensive knowledge of the Pandora's box of tricks which is Windows might find it quite simple, but I am not such a one. When I bought PB/DLL version 1 I did receive a reference guide by mail, but not in the case of PB/DLL 5 nor version 6, both of which I purchased. The version 1 guide is pre-DDT.
Before going into much detail I have just one question, and this concerns the extent to which one may replace a thing like Delphi for GUI purposes by using DDT instead, thus creating an application entirely in PB/DLL. The simplest yes/no answer to this would be to send a bitmap snapshot of a specimen screen (one of the more complex ones) from the application in question, e.g., one which (in Delphi) draws a diagram of varying combinations of rectangles and which is redrawn for
"what-if" purposes. Such a bitmap is of the order of 480Kb, however.
The calculation for this Delphi screen is done entirely in PB/DLL 5, and it returns the simplest information possible (colours and coordinates) for this diagram so that even Pascal can understand. The
screen contains a heck of a lot else besides, the diagram being only a small portion of it.
If PB/DLL can create this screen - well, then it has to be a complete GUI tool, and if there is complete instructions for use to go with it
then the Borlands and their friends are in very serious trouble in the coming millennium.
Is it feasible to send such a bitmap file?
Before going into much detail I have just one question, and this concerns the extent to which one may replace a thing like Delphi for GUI purposes by using DDT instead, thus creating an application entirely in PB/DLL. The simplest yes/no answer to this would be to send a bitmap snapshot of a specimen screen (one of the more complex ones) from the application in question, e.g., one which (in Delphi) draws a diagram of varying combinations of rectangles and which is redrawn for
"what-if" purposes. Such a bitmap is of the order of 480Kb, however.
The calculation for this Delphi screen is done entirely in PB/DLL 5, and it returns the simplest information possible (colours and coordinates) for this diagram so that even Pascal can understand. The
screen contains a heck of a lot else besides, the diagram being only a small portion of it.
If PB/DLL can create this screen - well, then it has to be a complete GUI tool, and if there is complete instructions for use to go with it
then the Borlands and their friends are in very serious trouble in the coming millennium.
Is it feasible to send such a bitmap file?
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