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- From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: ToolMaker from CATS
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- Message-ID: <mykes.0de0@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
- References: <heinz.035s@edohwg.UUCP> <hemmer.01x4@hemmer.adsp.sub.org> <heinz.038q@edohwg.UUCP> <F66Br*QU1@swinjm.UUCP>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (beta) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 4 Sep 92 22:18:23 PST
- Organization: Amiga makes it possible
- Lines: 46
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- In article <F66Br*QU1@swinjm.UUCP> forgeas@swinjm.UUCP (Jean-Michel Forgeas) writes:
- > In article <64836@cup.portal.com>, ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON writes:
- >
- > > I had to manually link the gadget to the window by calling the
- > > appropriate open window routine, process the events, and then
- > > close window routine as the event for the button. He said he
- > > may put in an option in a future version to do the operation
- > > in ToolMaker.
- >
- > No flame intended, just to say my opinion:
- >
- > I believe that code generators save developement time by creating an
- > image of an application element "in the space" (data structures and
- > event-loop skeleton).
- >
- > But when you want to link actions to objects to change the interface,
- > you want that the code generator creates an image of an application
- > "in the space+time".
- > Here I think that the amount of work to program such a code generator
- > is very large, while the few minutes to write OpenWindow() and
- > CloseWindow() ourselves seems nothing.
- >
- > Perhaps in the futur the wish will become that the code generator will
- > permit to surpass the limitations of gadtools.library?
- >
-
- To add my $.02:
-
- Borland C++ for windows provides several point-and-click tools for creating
- GUIs for programs and generating code. Perhaps it is not CBM's realm to
- be taking on such a serious task :) Let SAS do it...
-
- > Best regards
- > Jean-Michel
- > --
- > Jean-Michel Forgeas uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmfra!swinjm!forgeas
- > 4 rue du General Leclerc __
- > 95210 Saint Gratien, France \/
-
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- Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
- Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
- Mike Schwartz (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
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