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In article <X5Z8u3w163w@turbo.atl.ga.us> greg@turbo.atl.ga.us writes:
>ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
>> The file I miss is <_TcxlVid.h>. [ ... ]
> 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.

There are a few odd things about the SIMTEL copy. The TCXL-LIB.EXE is
called TCXL_L.EXE and has a different date than the other files. Perhaps
the uploader repacked the distribution and missed a few things. 

>> 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. [ ... ]

> 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.

Yes, those were easy - just get everything into Emacs and search for
it. But what about the omnidirectional menus and the MNU_DSP flags?
No examples, no documentation anywhere . Experimenting is one way of
finding things out, but I've learnt to spend my time better.

There was a comment in the reference manual that examples weren't
included, as they would bloat the manual and make it worthless as an
evaluation tool. Strange reasoning. 

Perhaps I'm overreacting. I am still wedded to the idea that shareware
packages should be treated just as any ordinary commercial offering, and
be judged on the same terms. Documentation is one of them.

> 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...

Well, I sort of agree. I believe the library package is decent. But
I spend too much time hunting for information, some of which isn't
even there. As I'm willing to pay for documentation, I'm going to
use another library for now. But I will certainly be interested in how
TCXL evolves. That note about event-controlled UI's seems promising ...

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