Re: what's the differents between MFC Wnd && .net winform??
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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Actually, if you look at the implementation of the STRINGTABLE, there are
up to 16 strings
in a block. The point is that the Microsoft product hid this
implementation from the
user, since it was a mere detail of implementation. So it was surprising
that the editor
did NOT hide this from me! It was a design failure at the user interface
level.
It isn't a "common optimization", it is the actual representation of a
STRINGTABLE
resource, even today.
It is a holdover from before protected mode made memory swapping irrelevant,
and when people commonly did spend a lot of time optimizing memory layout by
grouping common strings together, common code segments together, etc. You
would have blasted the tool from preventing you from performing your
optimizations if it had hid that.
My problem was that I had to deliver product that people could compile
with a Microsoft
compiler, or in those days, several others. By the time Borland had
licensed MFC, the
issue became irrelevant.
In those days, the Microsoft compiler was a joke. It succeeded only due to
the monopolistic bundling of the SDK along with it, which Borland, Zortech,
and Symmantec finally succeeded in stopping them from doing.
I was also turned off by the editor, which like most editors, was crap.
The only thing
that allowed me to use MFC was when I discovered that I could use a real
text editor, not
the joke Microsoft called an editor. Once the editor was decoupled from
the framework,
things got better.
With modern plug-ins the editors are very good for working with GUI apps.
When we spoke, you were unaware that the Visual Studio editor supported
incremental search (which works just like Epsilon's). So maybe you should
go back and find out whether some of the features you desire are now
supported. Things like bookmarks and column blocking are supported. The
indents are smart now. And so on. With Visual Assist, I dumped Codwright
years ago.
And say what you want to about the IDE editors. The IDE editors was the
first to implement syntax highlighting (Microsoft with QuickBasic, and
Borland with Turbo C++). You should have seen the DOS editors hop to catch
up when those appeared.
-- David