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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
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Subject: Re: PowerWindows
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Date: 25 Jan 91 21:00:54 GMT
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In article <5821.9101231729@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> cmp8133@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk ("S. Hawes") writes:
>I want to buy PowerWindows 2.5 for designing userinterfaces.
>However, I'd like to program in Modula2 using Benchmark's Modula
>2 construction set. Does anyone know whether that's possible using
>PowerWindows?
>I also heard that with the 
>packages comes a 'translation utility'. Is this correct ?

First the good news:

PowerWindows 2.5 supports Modula2.  It mentions TDI (yuck) Modula2
specifically.  I'm not sure about a 'translation utility.'
	Subjectively speaking, PW is a blessing when you're dealing
with menus, lots of gadgets, and such stuff.


Now the bad news:

PowerWindows 2.5 has some bugs which are annoying, at least in the
Manx/Lattice C code generation.  I don't know if this will also
affect Modula2 or other code.

Specifically:
	struct IntuiText 1IText1 ...
	struct MenuItem 1Menu1 ...
	                ^^
		These extraneous digits (always "1") are VERY
		bothersome.  They require editing of the
		generated source code, and they piss me off :(

		Does anyone know what's causing these?
		Left-over debugging statement?

Overall, I agree with whoever said some time ago, something along the
lines that PowerWindows 2.5 has enough bugs to make you want to
rewrite it, but is not quite buggy enough to make it useless enough to
force you to do it.  One of these days ...

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