Re: Xy under OS/2 (Was: running xy 3+ under windows xp - aarrgghhh!)

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "Chris Madsen"  on Sun, 22
Jun 2003 20:04:23 -0400


> There is no chance you will get TTG to revisit XyWrite code.

Andrew is, or was, the person who (ten years ago!) wanted TTG's help -- not I.
Nobody holds any hope for TTG today. I was simply answering your assertion
that "there never was an OS/2 version of Xy." Andrew implies that TTG knew all
about the OS/2 port, but declined to assist with further development.

Can you tell us -- if you know -- how SmartWords 09/2001 and NotaBene for
Windows compare to each other? Are they basically the same beast, or what?
How close? NB has database capabilities (Orbis) -- is SW superior in this
area? Also: could you describe a little bit the menuing system that SW ended
up with, the language it was written in, and what it did -- replace the
operations of DLG, or what? NBWin seems to use a hybrid of XPL and compiled
VB4 for menus...

You're in a position that some here thoroughly envy, namely you have the last
(Sept 2001) code for SmartWords, plus a menu for it, and nobody here has
anything remotely close to that -- our code is 6 years older than yours, at
best. Do you know of any way that the SW code could be unimprisoned (without
any expectation of support, of course)?

> I lurk because I do not use XyShell and find that
> my solutions to problems are often contraindicated
> because of it.

Surely you mean U2, not XyShell (which only a few people here use). U2 is just
a library of routines, like DLG -- mostly doing things that DLG doesn't do. As
you know, in XyWrite there are almost always several ways to skin the cat, and
I don't think there is any tyranny of U2 here, or any incompatibility of
solutions. We discuss a huge variety of topics.