Advantages
- Well designed Object oriented framework, provides real encapsulation of Windows APIs, allows inheritance and polymorphism.
- C++ class for many common Windows resource-related data types that provide automatic closure of handles when the objects creating them go out of scope.
- Provides a Document/View framework for creating Model-View-Controller-based architectures
- OWL comes with BIDS (Borland International Data Structure) a template class library
- OWLNext uses the Standard Template Library (STL), which simplifies ports to other platforms
- String class included in OWL
- Faster executables than Visual Basic P-Code Executables or java
- Faster executables than those produced by the .NET Framework
- OWLNext developers can use the IDE of their choice: Borland C++ 5.0, Visual Studio 6.0, 2003–2010, BDS 2006–2007
- Windows API can be accessed directly from OWL based programs
- Small GUI executables:
- Executables do not require the end-user to have the .NET Framework, which is a 22.4 MB download
- Executables do not require VB runtime
- Executables can use 'static' libraries
- Several wizards are available for a variety of tasks, including third party tools, which reduced the work to generate the minimal working applications.
- Fast compilation speed.
- Ported to Linux, free and open-source solution.
- Source code included. Developers can build an optimized version for a particular CPU.
- Namespaces supported.
- Windows 95 to Windows 7 compatible. Win 3.x supported until OWLNext 6.20.x
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