Can windows programming be implemented on turbo c.If it can be then please tell me how..
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king chandel 0 Newbie Poster
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
No. Windows win32 api functions require a 32-bit compiler. Turbo C is a 16-bit compiler. Come into the 21st century and get either free Code::Blocks or vc+ 2010 Express.
Adak 419 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
Yes, but only in a very limited way. You can use text functions in the console window. You can go into graphics mode, with the limited drivers that TC had, from back in the DOS days. Those still work.
I use TC for small text window programs - little puzzles and questions that you commonly see on the forum, here.
What you can't do:
1) Anything requiring more than about 400Kb. So all arrays sizes are limited, especially for structs and doubles. One program I wrote, using a small struct, is limited to just 700 max in the array of structs. For int's, it's 25,000 max.
2) Use the Windows API. TC has it's own extensions (mostly through supporting the header file "conio.h", so you don't need the Windows API for a lot of simple things - but that's not the same as having access to the whole Windows API, by a long stretch.
It's simpler, but a lot less complete.
So unless you are required to use it by your instructor, you should NOT start with it. With Windows 7, it's even worse to try and run Turbo C programs, requiring a special virtual machine. (Windows XP provides that virtual machine automatically for 16 bit programs.).
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