Wince

Post #51,982 by wharris2 9/16/02 10:57:43 PM Reply	Wince we have an extensive API of our own for manipulating the application data and building our web-based pages. Apparantly he had never see this done before... :-/ Recipe for disaster, IMO, but then what do I know? (the only thing I know is how much I don't know. :=( :=) The lawyers would mostly rather be what they are than get out of the way even if the cost was Hammerfall. - Jerry Pournelle
Post #52,003 by static 9/17/02 7:06:35 AM Reply	Which way? The use of our own API, or that he seemed not to have seen this before? Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #52,017 by wharris2 9/17/02 10:25:46 AM Reply	Re: Which way? The idea that the concept of an API would be foreign to anyone doing any sort of programming during the past ten or fifteen years. Home-built API's, or libraries, or whatever your terminology is - well, you want to avoid duplicating someone else's work, but there's frequently room for your own layers. Curses is a standard Unix terminal library, but I'm not sure I'd want to use the bare-bones library.
Post #52,143 by static 9/18/02 12:59:21 AM Reply	Yes, that's what I thought you meant. :-) I remember writing against the Zortech Display library - a text-mode interface for writing to the screen for DOS programs. I quickly added an extra layer to make it easier to work with (ah... abstraction). And in one project I added another layer to give me some rudimentary overlapping windows. :-) Wade "Ah. One of the difficult questions."

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