I just noticed PowerBASIC has relabeled their previous version of the compiler as Classic PowerBASIC and selling it for $49. (for a short time) If you have a few extra bucks you can get PBDOS for $99. I didn't know there was a market for outdated software.
http://www.powerbasic.com/products/clwn/
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Many companies sell superseded versions at a lower price - or even give them away. Serif (DTP) does this all the time. The site says the classic version works up to Win 7, so why not?
If it's a ploy to stimulate interest, the price still looks high to me. $10-$20 might be more attractive. Free would be better.
Anyway, what are the advantages of the new version?
If it's a ploy to stimulate interest, the price still looks high to me. $10-$20 might be more attractive. Free would be better.
Anyway, what are the advantages of the new version?
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Enhanced COM support and support for Jose Roca's library of INCLUDE's.
It still lacks OCX support but this is also compensated for by Jose Roca's extensions. It's a steep learning curve for most programmers migrating from the Classic version. (QB style programming) It's a toss up if PB 9 is worth the cost and effort to learn COM/Object way of programming.
I didn't notice if the relabeled product will be supported or bug fixes corrected and if it can be used to get upgrade pricing at a later date?
It still lacks OCX support but this is also compensated for by Jose Roca's extensions. It's a steep learning curve for most programmers migrating from the Classic version. (QB style programming) It's a toss up if PB 9 is worth the cost and effort to learn COM/Object way of programming.
I didn't notice if the relabeled product will be supported or bug fixes corrected and if it can be used to get upgrade pricing at a later date?
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DTP = Desk Top Publishing.marcov wrote:What is DDT btw? (I assume it is not the pesticide?)
Is it something Windows/COM, or PB internal?
I quoted Serif as an example. Their business model is to sell latest versions for around £79.99, and previous versions for £9.99. You will often find version minus-3 on free magazine cover disks.
See www.serif.com and www.freeserifsoftware.com
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DDT = Dynamic Dialog Tools
It is a wrapper around the Windows Dialog engine. It allows the programmer to create GUI's without having to resort to using the Windows API.
Here is a quote from their site:
It is a wrapper around the Windows Dialog engine. It allows the programmer to create GUI's without having to resort to using the Windows API.
Here is a quote from their site:
Dynamic Dialog Tools™ (DDT™) allow you to create a complete graphical user interface with ease, using just built-in statements and functions. DDT is perfect for many applications, as it gives you complete access to all of the standard controls like menus, buttons, listboxes, text boxes, labels, bitmaps, listviews, treeviews, and much more. You can specify custom colors, custom fonts, and custom styles, for the Windows "Look and Feel", and best of all, your dialogs are truly dynamic! Controls can be modified, resized, moved, disabled, all under program control. Perhaps even more important, they're fast, fast, fast... loading as much as 20 times faster than Visual Basic forms. Try our complete SMTP email client, a 30k executable with a graphical user interface, that allows you to send an email message to anyone on the internet. Some other compilers can't display "Hello" in a program 40 times that size! Of course, for more complex user interfaces, you should probably consider PowerBASIC Forms, our state-of-the-art Visual Dialog Designer.