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ff11@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes:

> Has anyone used WindowsMaker from Candlelight Software?  The product is
> supposed to create "c" code for the massive Windows overhead codelines
> which need to be created.  Any personal experiences you would care to share
> are appreciated.
> 

(I tried to mail this but it bounced)

I had the opportunity to play around with WindowsMaker at a trade show recently.
I was almost convinced to buy... but while explaining what it did to another
consumer, I realized that it didn't do a whole lot.

It does:
- let you design menus and attach accelerator keys according to SAA/CUA suggestions.
- let you try out your menus.
- write a code skeleton using your menu choices & calling the functions that
you listed for each menu choice.
- manage all those stupid #define ... crazy-number header files. This always
strikes me as a cop-out that MS didn't support enums in the resource compiler.
Then the compiler could assign all the magic numbers. Sigh.

It appears to:
- do dialogs (by just invoking DIALOG, of course)
- do ICONS (by invoking SDKPAINT)

It certainly will save time if you must design LOTS of menus, or if you
believe in magic.

The skeleton it produces looks a lot like all the examples that SDK gives you
with the message - 'please re-use this skeleton.'

IMHO,
What we need to help us:

- a system that starts here, but includes lots of functions, like
a pre-built dialog that gets a filename (with a choice of 1 listbox, or
2 for separate file & directory lists).

- DLLs with nifty controls that we are all probably re-inventing as I type.

ken.
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Ken Anderson, kea@kasoft.UUCP, 416-274-6244 (fax:416-891-2715)
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