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Subject: Re: TSCP, Visual c++ and MFC

Author: James Swafford

Date: 11:43:59 02/27/00

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On February 26, 2000 at 04:02:55, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On February 25, 2000 at 05:55:27, JW de Kort wrote:
>
>>On February 25, 2000 at 04:25:33, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>>
>>>Why you want to use MFC? The program does not need that library to work
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Franz
>>
>>I want to write my own chess program using MFC but for me this MFC is rather
>>complicated. An example of a code of a real program i more or less understand
>>would hopefully make a lot of things clear to me.
>>
>>regards
>>
>>JAn Willem
>
>If you want my advice, stay away from MFC. I don't know one single good
>programmer who uses it. I've gone through some programs that use MFC and they
>were overly complicated and buggy because of it.
>
>-Tom

Please elaborate, Tom.  As I recall, you don't like C++ either,
right?  Do you recommend using direct API calls, or staying away
from Windows GUI programming all together?

I think MFC is fine.  I've been using it for about three
years, and can't think of a single MFC related bug yet.

--
James




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