[galkk]

Same thing was with random turbopascal libraries and, later, Delphi’s vcl controls.

Damn Borland with their in-between library version incompatibilities. To this day I think it was the reason of their downfall.

> which taught me basic win32 programming to do things like have an icon in the status area next to the clock,

On one of programming Fido groups one guy literally had tagline “to put an icon in the area where the clock is you should use ShellNotifyIcon”

[makmanalp]

I remember Delphi being the one that people lamented the loss of when VB was gaining in popularity. And ShellNotifyIcon - how could I forget? :D

[memsom]

VB beat Delphi to market by a number of years. I remember Delphi 1 arriving in about 95. VB was on version 3 (though I honestly don't remember the prior 2 versions.) I do remember a lecturer in University saying that he was excited for Delphi, because it was going to shift the dominance of VB in the RAD programming arena.