From:	gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win32 support for DJGPP!!!!
Date:	22 Feb 1997 16:06:23 GMT
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Steven L Funk (steve AT cs DOT titech DOT ac DOT jp) wrote:

: 	I know that is wasnt solicited (and I am sure that I will be putting my
: foot in my mouth), but heres my 2bits anyway.  I think that Win32
: support should be added, with 2 provisos.  First, it should include
: support for console type programming within the Win32 environment,
: second it should be easy to program with.  I keep trying to do windows
: programming, and continue to find it too invovled to be worth the final
: product.  Perhaps if there was some way to easily separate the
: functional program code, from the interface code.  This would satisfy
: me.  Anywho, I hope that this is of some help to somebody.

Console-type programming... well, that wasn't what I had in mind, but of
course it's relatively simple to add support for that.

Making Windows programming fun. Hmm. When we get a good, working programming
system going, I intend to write something similar to the ObjectWindows Library
Borland ship with their Windows programming products. It's very similar to
TurboVision, and is a breeze to use - about ten lines can make a working
window, which takes about forty using traditional methods. There's a limit to
how easy Windows programming can be made, though.

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.

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