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> However, those issues are important to me but not critical. The real
> showstopper for me, when I was considering doing more real work in BlackBox,
> was the comparative difficulty of achieving some relatively basic operations
> that happen 'automatically' in VS and BDS applications. Just one example -
> when a user resizes a form which contains a table which fills the form, I
> want the table on the form to also resize in sync. I spent much time trying
> to work out how to code this in BlackBox without success. In Delphi the
> *only* thing I have to do is set the 'Align' property of the table to
> 'alClient'.
>
> Consequently, my current BlackBox work is limited to 'hobbyist' projects
> which involves limited visual interaction.
>
>
Exactly my experience.
This disadvantage will not be remedied by ports to other platforms, but
only by making available many GUI capabilities offered by other
development tools.
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.
Reinhard Bürger
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