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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Joel wrote:
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> I haven't had the opportunity yet to wotk with the win32lib but I'd say the
> best way to deal with the complexity would be to "hide" it as much a
> possible.
I think you will find that Dave has done a great job of hiding as much of the
Windows nastiness as possible. It's pretty much: drop the controls on a window,
and then tell each one what to do when clicked.
> The idea of reuseble code is (and what I've hacked at for years
> in rusty ol' turbo pascal) is make a working environment once and only
> change what needs to be changed. Build a win32 library with such things
> such as "procedure application" which creates a window frame with
> open, close, etc. No need to specify anything other than calling the
> procedure "application." WHAM! no need to deal with windows. I don't care
> much about what's under the hood and don't want to know as long as it does
> not slow the final app down.
You can do this in Windows. The user interface part will be much simpler and
quicker than it would have been in TP. The rest of the code will be more or
less the same amount of work as before.
Regards,
Irv
