saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) (11/02/90)
Ok, we all know that the standard GEM stuff that draws and animates dialog boxes
has 'quirks'. The standard advice has always been that if it doesn't fit your
needs, the tools are there to make a new one that does. I find myself in just
that position. What I need is a dialog library that works just a little
differently than the built-in one, and that does the same thing on any machine
that supports a close approximation to GKS. (That translates into English
as it should be in C, and it should be adaptable to use the VDI on the ST or
to use Meta Windows on the PC).
If anyone has this free, or for purchase without fees for distribution of
programs incorporating it, I'd be interested.
I've looked at some text-mode window managers with dialog capabilities,
and they're even farther from what I want than GEM is. I've also looked at
Tim Oren's form_do() replacement, and that's what I'll start from if I have
to do this myself.
Steve J.