[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > wrote: > >>>Like filereq that pops up a window and asks for a filename and then passes >>>the results back to the shellscript. A graphical version is much more in >>>the line of arachne than existing text versions like WBAT or BE. >> >>Yuk. Why not use Windows if you like that stuff ? > > > It is a far step between WBAT and windows, isnt it!? > And no, if i should use a real GUI then i use my AMIGA =)
I agree - reasons for not using Windows is Microsoft's policy, not Windows themselves. I prefere using GUI most of the time... except that I don't like object oriented programming, necessary to write GUI programs today :-( > Huh, i didnt mean to call update.dgi to make HTML after every keystroke. > That would be absurd. ;P > (but, Arachne is quite fast compared to M$-word, and m$ even flickers worse.) > - I meant something like my "file/.mpg |@mpeg.exe /B/N/C/R2/2 $1" does when i > run "anime.mpg" with my current screenresolution... > It will show the movie in a small borderless "window" on top of arachne > at the middle of the screen. And, I would like a rewrite of IBASE that would > encourage such programs to be written in a well behaved way. I want to replace IBASE libraries by something completely different on all other platforms except 16bit DOS. >>>(NC will always be faster than arachne) >> >>No. > > You think!? it would be nice... Well, on some older computers, text mode will be simply always faster than graphics, but since certain video card level and CPU speed, graphics may be fast enough. (If only X11 were designed in some intelligent way... :-( -- Michael "xChaos" Polak +420 603 872631 / +420 2 33355668 / ICQ# 40434104 http://www.arachne.cz (Arachne Labs homepage) http://www.mp3records.cz (100% legal and free music) http://www.legalizace.cz (Stop drug war & release victims !) http://www.vojna.cz (Petice za zruseni vojny i civilni sluzby)
