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Helmut,
I must appologize for my cryptic comment
of agreeing with Bart. It needs explanation.
I do all of my programming and all of my
document creation using BlackBox 1.4.
It is the best integrated development
environment I have used.
My agreement with Bart was on the 'future'
of BlackBox and on the commercial viability
of the 'product'. The hesitancy on my part
is not based on the quality of the work (which
is superb) but rather on the marketing of the
product. It is also based on the current
market in the USA which is very small.
It is also based on my frustration of employers
who know nothing of Oberon or Component Pascal
and are only willing to consider C/C++/Java.
I had the recent experience of asking a coworker
(who was a strong unix/c advocate) to produce a
Motif button to say "Hello world". One hour
later he was still struggling to get the code
correct (I was standing next to him). I then
showed him in 3 minutes how to do it under BlackBox
and he said "How does it know how to do that?"
My hope is that Stan Warford's book will help
advance the use of Component Pascal. If I can
convince the local university to hire me I will
use it to augment teaching of speech recognition
algorithms (If you plan for 10 years, plant a tree;
If you plan for 100 years, educate a child).
Rather than being critical, I'm racking my brain on
the best ways to promote BlackBox/Component Pascal.
-Doug
"Zinn, Helmut" wrote:
>
> Dear Douglas, dear Bart,
>
> you would like to have everything. I recommend to use Microsoft Visual
> Basic. There is nothing missing. You get Visual Basic free included in MS
> Office. Most of the people don't know that it is included. Just open a empty
> word document or open a empty excel sheet or open frontpage, press Alt-F11
> and you can start programming. There are a lot of examples in the web too.
> All free!!! But don't ask here if it isn't working. Press Alt-F4 and your
> problem is solved. Certainly your web applications must be redesign with the
> next version of VBA.
>
> I prefer to use BlackBox instead. It is more stable. There is no new version
> every month.
>
> If you won't buy BlackBox 1.4, so you have to go back and use BlackBox 1.3
> or earlier versions. The licence of the Beta version is expired - see at the
> documentations. It is not allowed to use the Beta version any longer since 2
> years.
>
> Regards
>
> Helmut
>
> P.S.: There is no Dialog Tree in version 1.3.x
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