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0.3 Dos coding and Windows testing
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Clipper programmers traditionally select certain tools to build their
own workbench environments. These are the tools that we strongly
recommend to be used in Windows programming:
* Source code editor: MultiEdit for Windows
(+ Evolve for Windows)
(c) American Cibernetics
* File Manager: Windows Commander
(c) Christian Ghisler
In CompuServe GO WINSHARE to get
an evaluation edition
* Resources Editor: Borland's Resource WorkShop
* Linker: Blinker 3.0 and above
(c) Blink Inc.
* DataBases manager: WDBU: Dbu for Windows
(c) Ignacio Ortiz de Z..iga
CompuServe: 100042,3051
There is an evaluation edition
Clipper.EXE, Blinker.EXE and MsLink.EXE, are DOS EXEs, and they
must be executed from within a Dos task.
Normally we keep one or two Windows MsDos tasks. Pressing Alt-TAB
you may quickly switch from MsDos into Windows and vice versa. If you
configure your Windows installation properly, you can direct all the
Windows normal activity swapping to a RamDisk, so the swapping to MsDos
and vice may be instant and without any hard disk activity.
We recommend you to create a Windows program manager new group, where
you place the icon of your FiveWin development application, plus an
icon for accessing MsDos, and another for the Windows resource editor
you use.
A great new benefit of Windows 95 is that you can automatically invoke
your Windows EXE from inside a MsDos task. So you may modify the
SAMPLES\BUILD.BAT we provide to automatically start your application
after linking it. So, no Alt-TAB pressing may be required to switch to
Windows.
We have compared our development cycle (editing-compiling-linking-
testing) speed with other Windows development tools and platforms, and
we are proud to say, that by far, CA-Clipper and FiveWin are the
fastest Windows development tools for a professional programmer.
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