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- From: dale@manet.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft Windows for Pen dead?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.223839.14995@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 22:38:39 GMT
- References: <anderson.28.715962885@mayo.edu>
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- In article <anderson.28.715962885@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I.
- Anderson) writes:
- > I admit that I'm curious.
- >
- > There is considerable traffic in this newsgroup about PenPoint but very
- > little on Windows for Pen.
- >
- > Does that mean that:
- >
- >
- > a) Everyone that is working in the pen arena is using the Go PenPoint
- system,
- >
- >
- > or
- >
- >
- > b) Developers using Microsoft Windows for Pen never encounter problems
- and
- > thus don't frequent this forum?
- >
- >
- >
- > (I can be objective - I don't use either....yet.... but do need to make
- a
- > choice soon.)
- >
-
- Windows for Pen is just an extension to an already existing application
- framework and OS (Windows and DOS). There are other forums for both of
- these subjects. PenPoint is an entirely new OS and app framework. There
- are no other forums to discuss PenPoint the OS and PenPoint the app
- framework. The actual pen input is only a small part of the day to day
- problems encountered. (However it plays a major role in how the app
- framework should be designed as PenPoint proves.) Most of the problems
- with writing for PenPoint is understanding the document model, the
- document instance states and issues brought on by the fact that the
- computer is truely mobile (i.e. not a workstation tied to a desk).
-
- Dale Frye
- Wahington University in St. Louis
- Pen Lab
-