Re: D8: first impression and uneasy feeling... (long)

From: Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu (cpub_at_hower.org)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 08:58:46 +0200

Barry Kelly <barry_j_kelly@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:b8194011d6asgn16h3kukt8gdfiv4hduom@4ax.com:
> Because saving and loading the contents of a list box to and from a
> text file isn't very useful?

You are missing the whole point again.

Its not just listbox. Its the fact that listbox is a "TSTrings" in Delphi and
thus has built in functionality and iteroperable with every other "similar"
type in Delphi. In. Net its not. In some ways it reminds me fo VB days. 

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Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/
      "Programming is an art form that fights back"

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