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In article <1992Oct4.220611.11419@cs.yale.edu> hille-leif@CS.YALE.EDU (Leif Hille) writes:
>
>A friend of mine has a very large MSDOS program consisting mostly of
>well written C-code.  What it needs, is to be jazzed up by a really
>nice front end/menuing system.  Does anybody know of software
>libraries or code generating software that will help generate the
>necessary code?  Any help is much appreciated.
>	

I am also in search of similar packages.  I've used TurboVision to
design my UI.  It is very easy to program in its OOP way. However,
the code size is unacceptable!  For my 70K of codes, it added another
240K for UI! 

My candidate is TCXL libraries from Innovative Data Concepts.  I've
test its shareware version from SIMTEL.  It looks pretty good.  I
also found that The Programmer's Shop is selling its commercial version
with a TesSeRact Screen Designer, and some utilities for $99.  Is there
anybody having experiences with it?

Jack Hwang

jch@netcom.com (Jack Hwang) writes:

>In article <1992Oct4.220611.11419@cs.yale.edu> hille-leif@CS.YALE.EDU (Leif Hille) writes:
>>
>>A friend of mine has a very large MSDOS program consisting mostly of
>>well written C-code.  What it needs, is to be jazzed up by a really
>>nice front end/menuing system.  Does anybody know of software
>>libraries or code generating software that will help generate the
>>necessary code?  Any help is much appreciated.
>>	

>I am also in search of similar packages.  I've used TurboVision to
>design my UI.  It is very easy to program in its OOP way. However,
>the code size is unacceptable!  For my 70K of codes, it added another
>240K for UI! 

>My candidate is TCXL libraries from Innovative Data Concepts.  I've
>test its shareware version from SIMTEL.  It looks pretty good.  I
>also found that The Programmer's Shop is selling its commercial version
>with a TesSeRact Screen Designer, and some utilities for $99.  Is there
>anybody having experiences with it?

>Jack Hwang
I needed similar sort thing myself. Somebody recommended TCXL which I down
loaded from simtel-20.The small model version 5.52 which is a shareware.
I was impressed by demo provided in there but when I compiled/link the demo
for myself it fail for not being able to include _TCXLvid.h .Apprently
many people had the same problem. Somebody suggested that there is CXL
package in the simtel-20 but in a different directory(in C) and does almost
everything TCXL does. Luckly all the header file for small model version
5.2 is down there and demo program compiles/links without any problem.
Above all the documentation provided are easier to read and the functions
are c like functions compare to TCXL which I found very pascal looking and
difficult to understand. 
It solved my problem. I hope it does the same for you.