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Re: Communication between app





On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:

> That was originally one of our goals for 2.0, however, that was one of
> the goals that we had to back away from.  In order to get 2.0 out we
> had to cut some things back and we decided with Windows '95 coming out
> soon, it would make more sense to work on a native Windows '95 port as
> soon as 2.0 ships than to delay 2.0 to get cut and paste to work with
> Windows 3.x.

	I think there are some nice routines in newer Win32 
implementations (NT 3.5x and Windows 95) which should make it pretty fast 
to copy the Executor bitmaps to the screen.  WinG might be one way, and 
I'm sure there's another API in NT 3.5 which does the same thing.

	Depending on how difficult the port away from gcc would be, you 
might want to consider working on this port even before 2.0 comes out and 
possibly even largely replace the DOS release with it since it would not 
have as many memory management problems.  (Especially if it can support 
Win32s, Windows 95, and NT 3.5 - this would allow it to be used on a large 
number of current machines.)

	- Chad

> 
> 	--Cliff
> 	ctm@ardi.com
> 
> 


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