[comp.windows.ms] Anyone have experience with CASE:W?

ks26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth Sykes) (04/05/89)

Just got something in the mail from CASEWORKS, maker of CASE:W, a system
that is supposed to let you prototype dialog boxes, menus, etc. and generate
Windows
code.  Anybody have experience with this package?

Thanks in advance,
    Ken Sykes
    ks26+@andrew.cmu.edu

paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011) (04/13/89)

I have a copy of CASE:W under 30-day evaluation.  It looks
very promising, but I haven't used it very much.  It was crashing
all over the place, and finally I cannled them.  It doesn't run 
on the debug kernel.  Once I got back to a normal Windows kernel
things went better, but I have been off on other things since
then.  

Brief summary:  CASE:W allows you to design the application,
including the main window, client area, menus, and dialogs
(via the normal dialog editor).  The generated code has places
to stick your app-specific code.  If you follow the coding rules
you can make changes with the tool, even after "customizing"
the generated code.  I look it as an "application editor", if
you expand the concept of a "dialog editor".  As a bonus, their
follow-on prodict (still unreleased) will work with Presentation
Manager, and can accept apps originally generated for Windows.

As I said, it looks promising -- the idea of designing the whole
app using this tool, AND having it port to PM, sounds great.
I'm a skeptic, so I will have to try it before I believe it.
The PM product (CASE:P?) was due out around now, I haven't heard
anything though.

Time permitting, I will post further notes on the product;  I hope
to get to it soon, as my 30 days are almost up!

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