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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Lattice "dBC III" library + "panel"
Message-ID: <10580.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 21 Jan 91 22:07:44 GMT
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Quoted from <5279@bwdls58.UUCP> by keithh@bwdls40.bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan):
> Questions specific to PANEL:
> 	o How does it compare with PowerWindows 2.0 from Inovatronics?

    If it's anything like Panel Plus II, and I'm pretty sure from the
    docs to PPII (MS-DOS version) that it is, it will be a text input
    sort of thing. You draw up a "panel", which is a heirarchy of text
    screens.

    A typical setup, for example, involving three levels to a panel:

    Level 1:

                User ID.: ||
                Password: ||||||||

    Level 2:

                User ID.: ||
                Password: ||||||||

            New password: ||||||||      \ this is the level 2 stuff,
            Confirm.....: ||||||||      / with level 1 still on screen

    Level 3:

                User ID.: ||
                Password: ||||||||

                Date....: ||||||||      \ level 3, includes level 1 but
                Time....: ||||||||      / covers level 2

    Input is into things like the Intuition string gadgets, except the
    programmer has much more control over what happens on each keystroke.
    No Intuition menus or genuine Intuition gadgets.

    Not a typical Intuitionly interface. I find the MS-DOS version a
    pain, but that's as much because of the application I use it with
    as because of PPII itself (the application depends on messing around
    with stuff deep in PPII, which is painful to maintain).

    On the other hand, they do have versions of Panel Plus for all sorts
    of machines, provide source, etc. I'd guess that Panel Plus gets
    more involved in handling the user interface than PowerWindows, but
    without real Intuition participation.

> Keith Hanlan  keithh@bnr.ca  Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada 613-765-4645
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