Comdex is not what you would call a "developers" show. The show is dominated by big hardware, big silicon, big software, big browsers. If you look between the huge booths you can still find the latest tools and toys for developers.

C++ Builder Sneak Peek
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At the Borland booth we are showing sneak peeks at our new Borland C++ Builder, a rapid application development tool for C++ (think of the spec for Delphi 2.0 update and add in a fast C++ compiler and incremental linker). On the first day we had thousands of customers stop by to see it, Delphi 2.0, IntraBuilder and JBuilder.

C++ Builder will be released in the first of 1997. The press release for C++ Builder is available at Borland Online

SipFH readers may remember a browser recipe I posted earlier in the year for Delphi. Here is a simple browser written using the HTML ActiveX control and C++ Builder.

in UNIT1.CPP:

void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{
      HTML1->RequestDoc(ComboBox1->Text);
}
void __fastcall TForm1::HTML1BeginRetrieval(TObject *Sender)
    if(ComboBox1->Items->IndexOf(HTML1->URL))
          ComboBox1->Items->Add(HTML1->URL);
    ComboBox1->Text = HTML1->URL;
    ComboBox1->SelectAll();
}

in UNIT1.DFM:

object Form1: TForm1

        Left = 200
        Top = 108
        Width = 596
        Height = 516
        Caption = 'CheapScape Browser'
        Font.Color = clWindowText
        Font.Height = -11
        Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'
        Font.Style = []
        PixelsPerInch = 96
        TextHeight = 13
        object Panel1: TPanel
            Left = 0
            Top = 0
            Width = 588
            Height = 49
            Align = alTop
            TabOrder = 0
            object Button1: TButton
                Left = 32
                Top = 16
                Width = 75
                Height = 25
                Caption = 'GO'
                Default = True
                TabOrder = 0
                OnClick = Button1Click
            end
            object ComboBox1: TComboBox
                Left = 128
                Top = 16
                Width = 433
                Height = 21
                ItemHeight = 13
                TabOrder = 1
            end
        end
        object HTML1: THTML
            Left = 0
            Top = 49
            Width = 588
            Height = 440
            Align = alClient
            ParentColor = False
            ParentFont = False
            TabOrder = 1
            OnBeginRetrieval = HTML1BeginRetrieval
            ControlData = {
                2143341208000000C63C00007A2D0000000001010100011E0000000100000000
                C0C0C000000000000000FF00FF00FF00010000009001C0D401000F54696D6573
                204E657720526F6D616E010000009001DC7C01000B436F7572696572204E6577
                01000000BC0280A903000F54696D6573204E657720526F6D616E01000000BC02
                20BF02000F54696D6573204E657720526F6D616E01000000BC02A42C02000F54
                696D6573204E657720526F6D616E01000000BC02C0D401000F54696D6573204E
                657720526F6D616E01000000BC02DC7C01000F54696D6573204E657720526F6D
                616E01000000BC02444201000F54696D6573204E657720526F6D616E}
        end
    end

Kills Bugs Fast - Congrats Numega!
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Monday night I attended the 13th annual PC Magazine Technical Excellence Awards show. This is THE prestigious awards show at Comdex. I was very happy to see that Numega Technologieswon in the development tools category for BoundsChecker 4.0 for Windows NT. BoundsChecker is an indispensible tool for all developers who are working on Windows 95 and Windows NT software. BoundsChecker is more than just a memory-checking tool, it can also find thousands of Windows errors. BoundsChecker 4.0 works with Borland C++ 5.0 and Delphi 2.0 to help you find those nasty bugs fast. Find out more at the Numega website.

Delphi developers will remember that Delphi won the coveted award last year. I will keep you posted on other developer news as it happens.

davidi@inprise.com