Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: how amiga developers can serve me better Message-ID: Date: 8 Oct 90 18:40:31 GMT References: <31878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 44 In-Reply-To: WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu's message of 29 Sep 90 03:33:49 GMT In article <31878@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: ARexx is now an official part of the Amiga's OS (as everybody has known for a long time). But ARexx is still only useable by experienced Amiga users. I would like to see third-party support for ARexx to make it much easier to use. Suport could include icon-driven programs which would allow the user to put together an ARexx script via menus and icons (a la AmigaVision). The program would then generate the actual scripts. This would push the Amiga's useability to new heights. The description is ambiguous. You apparently want an application generator, ala PowerWindows. I've seen one demo'd by the folks at SLAC. It was written using itself as a tool. Watch for it. However, most Rexx scripts don't open windows to talk to the user. They talk to the application that started them to talk to the user. A powerwindows style applications builder is pretty much useless for that. Something like CanDo might be worthwhile, but it really needs to be tailored to the application. Without that, what you've really got is an intuitionized, syntax-directed editor. Which might be useful in and of itself. This has been mentioned before, but I would like to echo it. Port Object C to the Amiga, and write a powerful NeXT-like interface builder. There is an object-oriented C system for the Amiga (other than C++, that is). It's not got the interface builder, though. You just have to know where to look (not being interested in such, I've forgotten where it came from). Port GNU C and GNU C++ to the Amiga! Well, that's not the kind of thing you ask commercial developers to do - they can't sell it through normal channels. On the other hand, it's the perfect kind of thing to ask a consultant to do. But they'll expect to be paid for their work. Send me email if you're interested in putting your money where your mouth is.