oreillyj@ul.ie (03/10/91)
I am currently looking into obtaining a CASE tool for developing Windows 3 applications. One that seems appealing is CASE:W which basically allow the painless design of the graphical interface for the application. Has anybody had any experience of this package or know of any other CASE tools available for Windows development. John O'Reilly,, oreillyj@ul.ie
kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) (03/11/91)
oreillyj@ul.ie writes: >[...know anything about Case:W or alternatives? ...] I'm using Case:W, "Corporate Edition V3.1." I consider it a useful tool. It seems to work fairly well. It is not a "do everything" tool. You can get it it generate the menu bar for a "primary window", but you can't use it to design the primary window itself. Their method for designing the primary window is for you to use Case:W to design the menu bar, use the dialog editor to create a dialog, and then it creates the main window based upon the dialog. It does generate a makefile, a .DEF file, etc. I consider it useful for creating the initial shell of a program. Most of the time, you can go in and modify the initial shell, and future "re-generations" of the shell will preserve your modifications. (However, if you modify the dialog that the main window is based upon, you may loose your modifications to the code that processes main window controls.) In summary, it is a useful tool, much like make, lex, and yacc are useful tools. I expect it to shave a few percent off my development efforts. I do not expect it to cut my development time in half. It works. This seems to be unusual in the Windows development world. -- Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347 {emory,gatech}!nanovx!msa3b!kevin Look closely at the return address. It is nanovx and NOT nanovAx.