Windex

Windex

[Stephen Leake]

Well, in the spirit of "never say never", I got tired of waiting to
have time to port my favorite Windex application to GtkAda, and
decided to see how hard it would be to fix Windex on Windows 2000.
Took about an hour; MS had added a field to the MenuItem record. Of
course, I should have had a test function that checked the lengths of
all C structs I imported, but that would have meant maintaing some C
code with MS Visual Studio; one of the reasons I gave up on Windex.

Anyway, if you want the fix, let me know. This is one way of guaging
interest in Windex :). If there is sufficient interest, I'll do a
release (the fix is _not_ on my website).

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: Windex

[Stephane Richard]

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well you got my interest.  But I think you knew that already. ;-).

I gotta stop praising you, people think I'll be starting a Great Stephen
Leake Ada Programmer's Cult or something. ;-).

Sorry to everyone else, but As it happened, I learned a lot of my ada
programming from Windex and SAL when I started along with a few other
examples and some PDF files :-)...he's my mentor and he don't even know it
;-).

-- 
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com


"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:uznfmd397.fsf@nasa.gov...
> Well, in the spirit of "never say never", I got tired of waiting to
> have time to port my favorite Windex application to GtkAda, and
> decided to see how hard it would be to fix Windex on Windows 2000.
> Took about an hour; MS had added a field to the MenuItem record. Of
> course, I should have had a test function that checked the lengths of
> all C structs I imported, but that would have meant maintaing some C
> code with MS Visual Studio; one of the reasons I gave up on Windex.
>
> Anyway, if you want the fix, let me know. This is one way of guaging
> interest in Windex :). If there is sufficient interest, I'll do a
> release (the fix is _not_ on my website).
>
> -- 
> -- Stephe

Re: Windex

[Stephen Leake]

"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:

> Sorry to everyone else, but As it happened, I learned a lot of my ada
> programming from Windex and SAL when I started along with a few other
> examples and some PDF files :-)...he's my mentor and he don't even know it
> ;-).

Thanks.

But this raises a general point. If you like/use an open source
project, you should provide feedback to the authors. Often the only
feedback we get is bugs. For all I know, there are hundreds of people
using Windex, and they've never had a problem :). I'd like to hear
from them.

I guess I should figure out how to log the downloads from my website,
and nag people with "satisfaction surveys".

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: Windex

[Stephane Richard]

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"Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:u8yn6bhwd.fsf@nasa.gov...
>
> Thanks.
>
> But this raises a general point. If you like/use an open source
> project, you should provide feedback to the authors. Often the only
> feedback we get is bugs. For all I know, there are hundreds of people
> using Windex, and they've never had a problem :). I'd like to hear
> from them.

*** Agreed, there should be a better effort in that direction.  Same thing
goes from users of commercial products too.  I've developped a financial
software that's being used by almost half the accountants of Canada.
They're no better at giving feedback either (if that's any comfort ;-)...but
I know they use it because I'm still in contact with the company I made it
for, and they keep on upgrading to newer versions and are quite satisfied
with it as per a few phone calls they get.  But they wouldn't let us know
that now would they? ;-).

Anyways, I'm very satisfied with Windex, and these small changes you brought
to it seem quite important to me.  Excellent work if I do say so
myself...wait, I do say so myself...hehehe...

>
> I guess I should figure out how to log the downloads from my website,
> and nag people with "satisfaction surveys".
>
> -- 
> -- Stephe


-- 
St�phane Richard
"Ada World" Webmaster
http://www.adaworld.com