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Subject: Windows-ish Mine Detector, was Re: Ada IDE
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> It may sound strange, but when I pointed Jeffrey Carter's Mine Detector
> Game to some of my friends (who are just typical computer users and
> have nothing common with operating systems other than Windows), they
> said, that they felt very strange and have troubles to get familiar with
> GTK look. After some time, they still look strange at this such GUI.
  As an exercise I modified the user interface package user_if.ad?  to
create a Windows-ish version.  Windmine, a version using the free
introductory version of Claw, has been kindly posted by David Botton at
www.adapower.com   Search for "Mine Detector".  No changes were required
in the game logic packages.