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TABLE OF CONTENTS
[author : Herbert Schildt ]
In this month’s lead article, Herb explains what Presentation Manager programs are all about.
In doing so, he develops a program template that you can use as the starting point for writing your own Presentation Manager programs.
[author : Margaret Johnson and Mark Solinski]
DLLs let several applications share the same code space and, as Margaret and Mark show, they allow you to write smaller, faster, and more portable applications.
[author : Bill Fitler]
Writing portable applications isn’t mysterious, it just requires that you have a different design philosophy and different tools than when writing for a single system.
[author : Jim Gettys]
X Windows is a windowing and graphics system designed to run across networks and Jim was part of the original X development team. Here, he describes what X is all about, paying particular attention to X protocol.
[author : John M. Dlugosz]
In this article, John presents a program that lets you make conditional searches of your directories. And he does it in C++.
[author : Karanjit S. Siyan]
Understanding in quantative terms how a complex program works is what software metrics is all about. Karanjit discusses some of the different approaches to this topic.
[author : Kee Hinckley]
The Open System Foundation had to make some tough decisions when deciding which windowing system to implement in their upcoming version of Unix. Here are their criteria.
[author : compiled by Kathleen Evans Ralston]
This index to last year’s will make finding a particular article a simple matter.
[author : Margaret Johnson]
Margaret looks at the XVT Toolkit, a "virtual" toolkit from the Advanced Programming Institute that lets you write Macintosh or MS Windows applications in one fell swoop.
[author : Michael Swaine]
this month Michael tackles one of the thornier issues of object-oriented programming —multiple inheritance. What he finds is that one simple question can beget many conflicting answers.
[author : Al Stevens]
Last month’s TTNYCOMM program brings Al to this month’s SMALLCOM, an enhanced communication program that sports windows, menus, and data entry tools.
[author : Kent Porter]
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But, as Kent points out, that’s easier said than done.
[author : Jeff Duntemann]
Jeff catches up on Comdex, paying particular attention to programming tools. He also discusses why text-oriented programs need to be video adapter "aware."
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[author : Michael Swaine]
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