Re: : CLICKS.F tutorial

At 06:20 AM 1/28/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Original sender: "Rick VanNorman" <rvn_at_forth.com>
>>Original sender: Howard Shapiro <hms_at_shapirolab.com>
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>Howard,
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>>At line 104 in file D:\SWIFTFORTH\SRC\SAMPLES\CLICKS3.F
>> CLASSNAME APPLICATION-CALLBACK DefaultClass DROP ;
>> ^
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>>Am I not in the right vocabulary?
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>The version has bitten you! The comment noted version 1.50.3 -- in which
>the new words DefineClass and DefaultClass were implemented. Here are
>the definitions for the version impared.
>
Many thanks, it works (although the hard word wraps in what I cut from your
e-mail originally generated errors).

I actually called Forth Inc. a few days ago about getting 1.50.3, the issue
being whether and what it would cost me, and was expecting to hear back from
sales by e-mail before now.

The more I think about it, the better I like the idea of trying to use the
Borland/Inprise class library and graphical development environment of
Delphi and C++ Builder with SwiftForth, especially after the laudatory
comments about C++ builder which appeared on this list earlier. Elizabeth,
are you listening? I've had a lot of success lately getting companies
involved in synergistic interactions, and I'm sure this would be one. I
know that Forth people tend to reinvent wheels more than a lot of other
folks, and I'm not saying that SwiftForth shouldn't also have its own object
model. But the benefit to Inprise and its customers would be the ability to
use big chunks of existing Delphi and/or C++ code in the interactive
environment of Forth - and lets face it, there's a limit to how Forthlike
you can make the Windows API. In the Windows world, you get points for
making it easier for code in your language to use DLL's and libraries in
others, so the benefit to Forth Inc., if you could work out some kind of
joint venture with Inprise on this, would likely be at least a few hundred
new users for SwiftForth in fairly short order, even if only a small
fraction of Delphi and C++ Builder users come on board at first.

-Howard

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Received on Thu Jan 28 1999 - 10:22:51 PST