by 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 you own Presentation Manager programs.
by 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.
by 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.
by Jim Gettys
X Windows is a widowing 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.
by 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++.
by Karanjit S. Siyan
Understanding in quantitative terms how a complex program works is what software metrics is all about. Karanjit discusses some of the different approaches to this topic.
by Ken 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.
by 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.
by 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.
by Al Stevens
Last month's TINYCOM program brings Al to this month's SMALLCOM, and enhanced communication program that sports windows, menus, and data entry tools.
by Ken Porter
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But, as Kent points out, that's easier said than done.
by 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."
by Jonathan Erickson
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