Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!att!dptg!holin!chf From: chf@holin.ATT.COM (Charles Foster) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Knowledge Pro Windows ? Summary: A few comments on my first impressions Message-ID: <955@holin.ATT.COM> Date: 1 May 90 17:27:11 GMT References: Distribution: comp.lang.windows.ms Organization: AT&T DSG Holmdel NJ USA Lines: 17 In article , hpasanen@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) writes: > Has anybody used the new Windows version of the Knowledge Pro? > Any experiences? I've had Knowledge Pro Windows for about a month now. If you are familiar with the Knowledge Pro product you will be very at home with the windows version. The documentation is very good and I have only reported a few problems to their CompuServe technical assistance line. With respect to creating a Windows application, the KPWIN enviroment seems to be less pain than the Windows developers here at work go through. The penalty, of course, is speed. In my first attempt, I built a very complex (7 push-buttons, 4 list boxs, 5 edit fields) screen and a main menu. To display this took about 20 seconds. I would caution anyone that this time was certainly not representative of an optimized screen and the release of KPWIN is "pre-release" version 0.9. This seems slow to me judging from other windows applications Ihave used in the past. In summary, if you are looking for to KPWIN to be a substitute for a Windows production development enviroment (ie. SDK and C-compilers), I think KPWIN is is probably not such a good choice. If you are looking for a easy to use Windowsapplication prototype enviroment or expert system shell, KPWIN is something to consider. If Knowledge Garden improves the speed of screen handling, KPWIN will be a lot easier to justify as a mainstream Windows application development tool.