Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 01:57:21 -0600 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Damien Tougas <damien@tougas.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GUIs are flawed Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000130015721.00a0ba90@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20000129163556.A69961@tougas.net>
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At 16:35 29-01-2000 -0700, Damien Tougas wrote: >Why can't someone create a GUI framework that works more like a command >line? -- Small programs/applets that are easy to maintain on their own, >but which can be plugged together by the user at will to accomlish >the task at hand. Hi, Damian, I started this message by saying that the framework was there (talking of Windows) becaue a Windows program can use both a CLI and a GUI. It is certainly possible to use the Unix style command line concatenation under Windows. Then I deleted what I started writing because I realized a Windows program has no easy way of knowing whether it is run from a CLI or the GUI. So, you are right... At any rate, it is still possible to do it, even under Windows. The trick is to put the bulk of the processing into a DLL, then write two programs, one to use with GUI and one with CLI. Of course, that requires extra work. Yeah, Windows sucks, long live FreeBSD! Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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