Quickwin or SDI - which should I use...

[jim_cox]

Quickwin vs SDI - which should I use?

I need to wrap a windows ui around some old old code

The old code communicates with the console using WRITE statements

I haven't been able to make this work in an SDI windowing project. My compiler (v11.1.048) generates the same error as discussed in the Knowledgebase article Reference Number : DPD200110270.

I've tried the workarounds suggested there, but with no joy. Presumably 11.1.048 contains the 11.0.072 fix.

Is it actually possible to do this in a SDI application? And if so what's needed. Some references I have found suggest that it may not actually be possble

Or will it work with a Quickwin project?

And finally is there a good simple description of the differnces between the two types?

Thankx yet again for your help

Cheers

Jim

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[Steven_L_Intel1]

The article you referenced should have no relation to a QuickWin application. The QuickWin SDI mode is to emulate old DOS full-screen applications - single window, no menu. QuickWin should work well for what you are proposing, as long as you're not calling Fortran code in DLLs.

[jim_cox]

Quoting - Steve Lionel (Intel)

The article you referenced should have no relation to a QuickWin application. The QuickWin SDI mode is to emulate old DOS full-screen applications - single window, no menu. QuickWin should work well for what you are proposing, as long as you're not calling Fortran code in DLLs.

Ok understood - but I dont think that will give us quite what the Boss wants.

ie: windows menus

Is it possible to use an SDI (or even MDI?) menu to open a quickwin style console window that will handle such WRITEs etc?

Tnen maybe I could spin a generic quickwin around bits of the current code, and hang them togther with a windows menu

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Yes - A QuickWin application will direct any standard Fortran READs and WRITEs to the window as a "console". No coding changes necessary. The MDI version will give you a menu with some simple functions, and you can add to the menus.