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[Rick Sivernell]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:38:00 -0600
Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:

> Glad you asked ..
> 
> Got the SLAG Stuff done earlier this year. Easy as 1-2-3 to create menu
> and screens. Parameter driven type stuff.
> 
> Found GTK+(#)/C# here lately. Would be an easy retrofit to
> incorporate TRUE GUI from the GTK and C# libraries, since I patterned
> the TUI intrinsic after the GUI side of things, just need to
> extend some stuff to have all of the "COMMON" widgets that they have.
> That way the "engine" could do true GUI or TUI depending on the
> environment and you DO NOT have to make any program changes to
> accommodate things.
> 
> S-Lang itself is fast, fast fast and very C like, so good choice there.
> 
> Seems like my hold up is the MVISAM database, just have not had time to
> work on it since putting food on the table is #1 priority. Maybe I ought
> to get one of those $300 per month programmers from Panama, David B. keeps
> talking about to help work on it ;-> ....
> 
> Have gotten dragged into helping someone GUI'fying Appgen lately as well.
> A lot of work on that has me to believe that it is a dying product, since
> I have had to do a lot of "backdoor" sleuthing into the runtime.
> Bad thing about closed source is that even some good ideas will wither and
> die when a product eventually collapses. At least I do have a way
> to re-source AppGen applications to my SLAG project.
> 
> Rick Sivernell wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > Ben
> > 
> >   Mostly Relational, ISAM, ctree, btree, DB here. I know Pick has been around a
> > long time now. There is a place for everyone, and everything here at the table.
> > How is your project doing? My is kinda on hold while on cotract, I am picking up
> > new thing to add to my IDE though.
> > 
> 
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Actually, wxWidgets would give you multiplatform GUI, it is C++.

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Rick Sivernell
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