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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Do you do ASIS?
Date: 2000/03/09
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In article <38C6D176.9A7AB6C7@earthlink.net>,
  Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 1)  It should be able to be used in the generation of
> stand-alon programs that do not require a separate library to
> have been previously installed in the computer.

This seems to be to be old style (DOS like) thinking, not
applicable to modern Windows environments, given the importance
of COM objects.

Any serious program distributed for Windows today is distributed
in installable form, most likely with install shield, and any
necessary libraries, DLL's etc can be installed automatically
as part of the installation process.

Virtually all distributed software for Windows is in this form,
so it seems quite unnecessary to try to accomodate anything
else. Note that the "Win 3.1 support would be nice" is also
evidence that this is thinking that comes from a bygone era :-)
The reference to Feldman's screen package also shows this
old style thinking, since this package is obviously quite
unsuitable for the generation of nice looking GUI's with
decent fonts etc.

The idea that you would have multiple applications installed
on a Windows 2000 machine all of which contained embedded
copies of complex graphics packages statically linked really
makes no sense.

So in fact it seems that you are asking for something far
different than what I thought was being discussed, namely
a very simple package that generates very crude fixed-width
dos-style interfaces (I really can't bring myself to call
these GUI's at all). That's certainly a reasonable thing
that someone might want in some case, but definitely GLADE
and similar GUI tools are not about satisfying this kind
of requirement.


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