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Getting Your Feet Wet
but you need not be concerned about that right now. So, without further ado, let’s create
Hello World as a Win32 console program with C++Builder.
A Win32 console application is a 32-bit program that runs in a DOS box under
Windows 95 or Windows NT.
NEW TERM
From the main menu, choose File | New. C++Builder displays the Object Repository.
Curiously enough, the Object Repository’s title bar says New Items, but don’t be thrown by
that. The Object Repository contains predefined projects, forms, dialog boxes, and other
objects you can add to your applications or use to begin a new project. I will discuss the Object
Repository in detail on Day 9, “Creating Applications in C++Builder.” For now, click on the
New tab in the Object Repository and double-click Console App to start a new console
application project. C++Builder creates the project and displays the Code Editor so that you
can enter code for the program. Figure 1.4 shows the Code Editor as it appears when starting
a new console-mode application.
Figure 1.4.
The C++Builder
Code Editor window.
You will notice a couple of differences between the C++Builder IDE now and how it looked
earlier when we created a GUI application. First, there is no Form Editor. That’s because a
console application can’t display forms (well, that’s not completely true, but it’s accurate
enough for this discussion). Also notice that the Object Inspector is blank. You can only place
components on a form, so the Object Inspector is useless in a console application.
TIP
When writing console applications, you can close the Object Inspector
to make more room for the Code Editor window. Close the Object
Inspector by clicking the Close button on the Object Inspector’s title
bar. To bring back the Object Inspector, press F11 or choose
View | Object Inspector from the main menu.
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