KAPFFER@DMZRZU71.BITNET (Matthias Kapffer) (10/20/88)
There are various libraries for programmers who wish to use a user interface
using the text screen ! The July 1988 APDAlog lists in its Curiosity Shoppe
the Apple II Filecard Toolkit (low level drivers and AppleWorks-like
filecards) and the Desktop Toolkit (in two versions for Apple Pascal and
ProDOS) which implements the desktop metapher in double hires and MouseText.
Both packages run on a (enhance) //e and up.
Additional, on page 47 there is an ad by 360 MicroSystems offering the
IIgs-only 360 Text Toolkit which implements text screen primitves, windows,
mouse cursor, menus etc. (BTW, has anybody seen this and can share some
impressions ?)
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If the desktop toolkit is what Strategic Conquest uses, I'm definitely less then impresses with the results. It's definitely straining to force the desktop metaphor into a text screen. The text-style interface, on the other hand, is much better. If your going to go text, I recommend sticking with text, not pseudo-desktops.