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On Wed, 17 May 2006, Reinhard Bürger wrote:
> > Consequently, my current BlackBox work is limited to 'hobbyist' projects
> > which involves limited visual interaction.
> >
> Exactly my experience.
> Probably many "hobbyists" ("BlackBox adhererers" as opposed to
> "IT-professionals") are engineers and scientists, whose work is their
> hobby, and who write progams for themselves, just to get their work done
> reliably and quickly, even with limited GUI options. I suppose those
> make up for the majority of professional BlackBox users today.
Exactly a description of my situation, status, goals, and values.
With one adjustment: my projects have extremely rich visual interactions
of the scientific kind. Courtesy of Robert Campbell (Lib) and my own
(Gr) I have a rich set of interactive graphical tools for data acquisition.
My DAQ projects compare quite positively with other systems that I used
in the past. It is also true that I do not support a large user community,
but rather just myself plus a limited circle of students and collaborators.
> This disadvantage will not be remedied by ports to other platforms, but
> only by making available many GUI capabilities offered by other
> development tools.
In "our" view (myself, Fyodor, Robert,...) ports are more important
than GUI capabilities. I am not using most of the existing BlackBox GUI
because I do not need it. I never used buttons with pictures,
self-adapting icons, sliders, or other goodies from the CPC website.
I occasionally watch other developers using other development tools
such as VB or Linux tools. This kind of goodies is not critical in
my line of work. On the other hand, having a Linux port (with the same
look and feel) or a 64-bit compiler would both be very valuable.
W.
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