work with tools and libraries
If you used Turbo Assembler 4.0 with a previous installation of TCW,
you must reinstall it after installing TCW 4.5.
Also, be especially careful when using object files and libraries
from earlier TCW versions with binaries created with this
release. There are several potential problems when linking with old
objects or libraries. Exceptions won't work correctly (destructors won't
get called) when a pre-BC4 stack frame is unwound due to an exception.
Do not use long file names when installing under Windows NT.
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Installing TCW 4.5 on your hard disk
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Diagnostic and debug version of OWL are not installed to the hard
disk, but they can be copied from the CD.
Users of ObjectWindows 1.0, should read the COMPAT.TXT file for
**** Note to Windows NT, OS/2, and Windows 95 users ****
If you intend to use TCW under any of these platforms you must
follow some additional installation steps, which are listed in
the INSTALL.TXT file. If you fail to read and follow these
configuration guidelines, you may encounter several significant
For more information about installing and configuring TCW, see the
file INSTALL.TXT which can be found in the following locations:
TCW 4.5 includes the following new features:
- A complete encapsulation of OLE2 via new ObjectWindows classes
and the ObjectComponents Framework, a new set of C++ classes. This
allows you to develop applications that support the following
* Linking and embedding containers
* Linking and embedding servers
* Automation servers (automatable servers)
* OLE clipboard operations
* OLE drag and drop operations
* OLE user interface, including menu merging, pop-up menu
for activated object, verbs on container's Edit menu
* L...