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Article #289Re: ShareWare Windowing Software
From: Jeff Foy
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 13:55
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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