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From: dold@88.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: So, how's the GUI version coming?
Date: 3 Nov 1998 18:42:51 GMT
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: We're still working on it :-)
: out in favor of GUI dialogs. Thus GUI dialogs (thousands of them) must be
GUI dialogs? I don't want those.
What I want is to be able to keep all of my scripts (currently executable
on multiple platforms), and a command line that continues to be nearly
identical on all of the platforms.
What I need in GUI is the connect, terminal, and script invocation part.
Are you intending to make Kermit more GUI than PCPlus? I think PCPlus has
some poor programming and default operations, but I am near putting it in
place in lieu of K-95...
I need a GUI looking terminal screen, with some clickable thingies to
connect to various computers... Very close to what K95 offers since the K95
1.0 "dialer" window. Making the command screen non-existent is also
important. There should be an option to _never_ show the command screen.
When the connection closes, or can't dial, or whatever, no command screen
with the (shudder) typed word "exit", just bail out, back to the "dialer".
The desktop icons representing connections put me very close. If you could
just have a drop down clickable list of macros (scripts) in a terminal
window, I'd go now.
My problem with indeterminate product development cycles is that I don't
know how long to wait. I won't ever use a GUI script development, I don't
think. If K-95 1.17 is all I've got to work with for another year, I'll
buy 20 copies and be done. I need the scripting. My users want to click
on developed product. They don't want scripting authoring at all, I don't
want GUI in my scripting.
I've used Kermit since 2.0, now I'm waiting for 2.0 again ;-)
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Clarence A Dold - dold@network.rahul.net
- Pope Valley & Napa CA.