Biolerplate: startup for OWL programming description
A boiler plate code generator for Turbo Pascal® ObjectWindow programs. BoilerPlate is a program which gets you started on a new OWL program by generating the appropriate boiler plate code. With BoilerPlate, you start by using Resource Workshop or WRT to design your primary resources (menu, ccelerator,
cursor, etc).
After spending some time deciding what you want in the program,use WRT or Resource Workshop to build a resource (.RES) file. It should contain your menu, icons, cursors, accelerator, and in the case of a TDlgWindow descendent, the dialogbox and controls for the main window. The identifiers you use should be put in an include file for later use. Start BoilerPlate and read in the .RES and .INC files. You then make choices for various things like program name, what window messages you want to handle, what OWL methods you'll be overriding, etc. BoilerPlate then writes out the source defining your main window object and including empty (mostly) methods for the menu items and window messages you selected. The source can be compiled and run. It won't do much, but you can select menu items, etc. Now all you have to do is the fun part--fill in the empty routines.
Code Library
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