roberth@microsoft.UUCP (Robert HESS) (08/21/90)
David Lyons states:
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There's no shortage of ideas for the toolbox, but we can't have
thought of everything. If you have ideas, feel free to post them
here for discussion.
David,
Congradulations on your new position! This definately is welcomed news.
As for the toolbox... (well, you *did* ask)
One thing that I would like to see, is something similar to the
MouseText toolkit as a standard ToolBox API Set. Not all applications
need a 'graphical' display mode, many would work quite well (even better
in some cases) as a text application. Most, if not all of these apps
would definately benefit from a common UI of some sort. Why force them
to either create their own 'mousetext' interface, or worse yet,
implement some sort of bizarre UI.
I suppose rather then providing this as an actual toolbox, it could be
distrubuted as some library that most of the current GS compilers could
link to, but it would be better as an API built on top of the TextTools
set.
-Robert
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