Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: Nick Porcino Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.codewarrior Subject: Re: (ANN)CodeWarrior for Net Yaroze Release 2 Available Now Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:18:23 -0800 Organization: SCEA Net Yaroze News Lines: 46 Message-ID: <33C33B3E.62B@bc.sympatico.ca> References: <33A5A070.6343@austin.metrowerks.com> <33ACC01D.718E@znet.com> <33B13543.52B7@austin.metrowerks.com> <01bc8c03$939160a0$61f90398@mcs2.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vcta01m01-13.bctel.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-SYMPA (Macintosh; I; PPC) Mike wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Will the next version of CW have floating point emulation built into the compiler? It is incomprehensible that someone would design a compile without floating point emulation. Besides the incomplete compiler, the most obvious flaw in the product is that it is a port from a minority platform to a majority platform. I, along with nearly every other CW user, would like to see a real Windows version of the product; something designed in Windows, for Windows, and using Windows standard components and layouts (consult MS styleguide). Are we ever going to see a Windows native version of CW? I hope so. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On floating point, I don't think we'd want to use floating point emulation even if we had it, comments on the SCEE site seem to indicate that the poor ol' R3000 isn't that fast. I've been using CW on the Mac to do product development for quite some time, so I thought I'd pass on an amusing observation. I've noticed over the last few iterations that Microsoft Developer Studio and Metrowerks CodeWarrior seem to be converging. MSDS gets tool tips style variable read outs in the debugger, so does Metrowerks on the next rev. The current CW even makes the mouse cursor behave like it does under Windows, not under other Mac apps - it doesn't disappear when you use the arrow keys, only when you enter text. It's a subtle distinction, but... Visual C++ on the other hand is becoming more Metrowerks like as time goes on - the project organization system has become pretty much the same as Metrowerks. Metrowerks can have multiple projects open at once and drag and drop between them, what do you want to bet VC++ will have it in the next rev. Also, it's interesting to note that Microsoft is sharing their incremental link technology with Metrowerks, and that Metrowerks supplied Microsoft with a JIT Java compiler, and wrote ActiveX for the Mac for Microsoft as well, AFAIK. So at some point, CW is gonna be a "real Windows" product, by hook or by crook, I think. - nick