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In article <273747e5.530e@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, jdunn@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Dunn) writes:
> Does anybody out there have experience with commercially available
> windowing libraries?  ...

I'm also interested. It's worth ordering demo versions of the tools.
I have these demos:

	Demo	Size	Tool			Company			
	----	----	----			-------
	mndemo	278K	Menuet 			Ithaca Street Software
	demo	210K	Zinc Interface Library	Zinc Software, Inc.
	rundemo	164K	graphics-MENU		Island Systems

(Size is disk space, not necessarily related to run-time RAM requirements).
Impressions based on the demos ALONE:

	Menuet seems very full-featured, with many (many, many, ...)
	library functions (nice to have a comprehensive listing of
	the functions in the demo package). Coming up to speed on this 
	would take a while, but most of what I would want in a library 
	was there.

	graphics-MENU seemed more specialized and less flexible.

	Zinc is C++ based (indeed, it inherits from the Turbo-C++ 
	classes), and seems very well thought out (they include 
	an overview of the class library and member functions). I
	would anticipate code space would be high relative to 
	functionality for small projects (because of inheritance
	from the base classes), and low relative to functionality
	for large projects.

Again, all this is based on seeing the demos (which, however, is better
than simply examining the promotional materials). I would like to hear
from someone who has actually used these products for development.