jdunn@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Dunn) (11/07/90)
Does anybody out there have experience with commercially available
windowing libraries? That is, libraries that help create stand-alone
GUI applications running on a PC under MS-DOS.
In particular, I have looked at:
product vendor
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graphics-MENU Island Systems
Zinc Zinc Software (brand new)
GUIDO South Mountain Software
C-scape Oakland Group, Inc.
I need to keep the size of the executable down, and I would be willing to
sacrifice some functionality to do so. I'd appreciate any comments
from anybody who has used (or knows somebody who has) any of these or other
products. A major concern is reliability - I don't want to be spending time
tracking down bugs in the graphical system.
Thanks much.
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TALK HARDdougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens) (11/08/90)
In article <273747e5.530e@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>, jdunn@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Dunn) writes: > Does anybody out there have experience with commercially available > windowing libraries? ... I'm also interested. It's worth ordering demo versions of the tools. I have these demos: Demo Size Tool Company ---- ---- ---- ------- mndemo 278K Menuet Ithaca Street Software demo 210K Zinc Interface Library Zinc Software, Inc. rundemo 164K graphics-MENU Island Systems (Size is disk space, not necessarily related to run-time RAM requirements). Impressions based on the demos ALONE: Menuet seems very full-featured, with many (many, many, ...) library functions (nice to have a comprehensive listing of the functions in the demo package). Coming up to speed on this would take a while, but most of what I would want in a library was there. graphics-MENU seemed more specialized and less flexible. Zinc is C++ based (indeed, it inherits from the Turbo-C++ classes), and seems very well thought out (they include an overview of the class library and member functions). I would anticipate code space would be high relative to functionality for small projects (because of inheritance from the base classes), and low relative to functionality for large projects. Again, all this is based on seeing the demos (which, however, is better than simply examining the promotional materials). I would like to hear from someone who has actually used these products for development.