Re: [Fwd: Anyone programming Windows apps in Forth?]

Concerning Forth + Windows application programming, I recently finished a
full-fledged Windows interface to a web page management system. The system
manages our music department event calender, allowing our office secretaries
to enter and edit concert/recital/lecture events at their desks. The program
is basically a database manager that generates web pages, produces
wordprocessor-ready fliers, text files, reports, automatic ftp services, and
many other features, and transparently uploads the material to the
university web server directories. The program has a complete
button/window/menu-based interface. I may be releasing this system to
shareware at some point.

I found the SwiftForth environment perfectly easy to program in, much nicer
than C. However, I did have to do a lot of the interface design from a
pretty low level. Compared to that, try Borland JBuilder and see that it
only takes a few minutes to create a windowed interface and have it generate
all the Java code for you. Such utilities also exist in the C world, and
such programs are probably big selling points for a development environment.
Interface programming is onerous at best. I can program the core algorithms
for a program in a day or two, but spend months on the interface. Ugh!!!
This is a problem with all modern graphical interfaces. The Windows API came
pretty easily to me, having had experience programming for the Amiga
Intuition API, which is somewhat analogous in design.

Bob Dickow
Assoc Professor of Music
Lionel Hampton School of Music

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather_at_forth.com>
To: <sftalk_at_forth.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: [sftalk] [Fwd: Anyone programming Windows apps in Forth?]

>
> The following message appeared on comp.lang.forth. I believe the
> "Windows GUI interface" means a point-and-click user interface
> development scheme like Visual Basic, but I'm sure the folks there
>...

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