STLEX(ProjEx3) AN EXAMPLE CONTACT MANAGER PROGRAM

This project is in progress. it is not a completed application.

This is an example program. Not an attempt at a commercial
project.

The choices have been made to provide a coding example
which can be easily viewed.

A more commercial (not to mention quick!) approach would have used
App Expert to generate a dialog based main window, the controls
would have been added in Resource Workshop and the Borland
Visual Component Library used to connect to a Paradox Database.

I chose an STL set for a database because of it's speed in accessing 
elements and ease of inserting and erasing, not to mention the immense,
extensible algorithm library which seemed ideal for a simple
contact manager.

The approach of constructing the controls in the window constructor,
although not as pretty as a dialog box, 
allows substantial flexibility once the initial coding has been done 
and there are limiting factors to using AppExpert and the V.C.L. which
don't apply to a bare-bones database such as a set.

Once this program has been written it willprovide the basis for either
a more complete application or can be easily converted to a number of 
uses.