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ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:

> The file I miss is <_TcxlVid.h>. It is used in the demo, and for all I
> know the file should be there, because the reference manual references
> it as well. But I'll try without the underscore.
 It should be in there. It's in the registered distribution, and I have
 no idea why it shouldn't be in the shareware distribution.

> It seems rather complete, and it could probably be updated to be even
> better.  I'm begining to find it a bit irritating, though. It only seldom
> provides a mechanism for doing things, but rather a policy of how to
> do it: Help window titles can only be "Help", window borders can only
> be 5 standard types, menus can't be made to work after the MOTIF Style
> Guide, etc.
> 
> Most of these things are probably easy to fix once you have the source
> code, though.

 True. The source is commented well, and is overall well-written.

> The documentation doesn't look too good either. There's much of it,
> but it isn't complete, nor easy to use, mostly due to lack of an
> index.  Take the menu package.  There is no description in the
> reference manual of what the MNU_xxx flags to the MnuEnd(), or the
> ITM_xxx flags to the MnuItm() call do. I could only find a short
> comment in the include file, which wasn't much help. Guessing often
> works, though. The problems begin whan you can't guess...

 Check the appendixes. Those defines should be in Appendix C. Most of the
 stuff is fairly self-explanatory. MNU_VER - vertical menu, ITM_PUL -
 pull-down menu attached. There are also examples in the tcxldemo.c
 source code.

> 
> In all fairness, though, TCXL 5.5 is probably in transition. It has
> changed since CXL 5.2, and several bugs have been fixed.  I suspect it
> will be a lot better when it has stabilized a bit more.
> 
> -- 
> Anders Thulin       ath@prosys.se   {uunet,mcsun}!sunic!prosys!ath
> Telesoft Europe AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden

 I believe 6.0 is in the works. v5.52 will be out soon, and they are
 working on porting it. I have yet to find a better library package for
 the price...

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