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Re: ShareWare Windowing Software

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From: Jeff Foy
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 13:55
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In <1992Aug7.053439.8986@sfu.ca> larrie@beaufort.sfu.ca (Larrie Simon Carr) writes:

>What I need is a windowing package that has the ability of
>creating scrollable pick lists (menus), menus and windows with
>edit fields.

>I have looked at three different shareware windowing software:
>BossWindows, UltraWin and CXL.

>BossWindows does not appeal to me because of it method of setting
>up a window contents (creating a structure).  Also, no pick lists.

>UltraWin is very nice, but no pick lists.

>CXL looks great except too many functions (260) making it a 
>harder to use than UltraWin.  BUT it has pick lists.  But the 
>version I found was 2 years old.

>Anyone have any suggestions?  SeaWorthy is a bit pricey for me.
> 

You might want to try CXL's successor, TCXL. CXL itself was sold
to the folks who now make TCXL. [Bad move in this humble netter's
opinion... Now the code looks more like Pascal than C]


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