[Oberon] Standalone BlackBox programs was: GUI programming in Oberon.

[Lars]

On Mon, February 29, 2016 5:02 am, Treutwein Bernhard wrote:
> Lars,
>
>
>>>> There is no way to ship a standalone exe GUI program,
>>>>
>
> Wrong. Please check before you set such a statement in the wild.
>

Right. Virtually you can do it, but virtually it's 100 times harder than
using delphi...

>
>> How did you ship an exe standalone? modify the blackbox source code, or
>>  use a different compiler?
>
> There are several way, the basic one is documented in the
> "Platform-Specific Issues".
>


Yeah like I have time for this:

"If you want to distribute an application you have written in BlackBox,
you may want to link all modules into a single file for distribution. In
this case you need to link the framework to your application. To
illustrate the necessary actions we will give an example. First duplicate
the BlackBox application in the Explorer"

In delphi you hit F9, and you're done. In blackbox, they make it a pain in
the butt.

Reasons Delphi sold well? not sure. Turbo pascal? not sure...

Okay so you can virtually do it, but literally delphi is much easier.