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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Varargs interface to widget routines
Message-ID: <29710@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 89 15:12:52 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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I find the WidgetWrap routines very helpful, it seems like a small
enhancement at first glance but for some reason it seems to turn
typical application prototyping from hunt-and-peck with some
head-scratching to just a typing-speed exercise. Particularly the
WidgetSet/Get routines tho WidgetCreate is also very handy. Most
importantly, it seems to really speed up the time it takes to explain
how to write a simple application to an experienced programmer just
wading into the X waters, more intuitive I guess (tho I hate
explanations which end like that!)

Granted it's an evolutionary step towards something even more
sophisticated but it's here, it's useful, it's defined in a
straightforward manner.  I'd urge blessing it.

-- 

	-Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die

There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than
satisfied customers.