Re: Compiler features

Squeamizh wrote:

I am not sure what is meant by "assembling" the main window, but
regardless of the meaning, saying you can do it in a few lines
certainly sounds ridiculous.

Perhaps this is all just some big misunderstanding, and Mark McIntyre
can provide an example of what he's talking about.

Sure. I have an app that pops up a window, displays an analogue clock, and counts down from some point defined by the commandline, before beeping thrice and exiting. It takes 40 lines.

If it only takes a
few lines, then demonstrating his point should be trivial.

Well, I was responding to a troll, and he took my bait, and you responded to his further trolling, so....

But the point is, if the HLL you're using provides suitable features you can do it easily. Win32 on its own is too low level to offer this sort of sopistication but there are plenty of higher-level UI libs that do. These also have the advantage that they work on different underlying graphical display subsystems, The above 40-liner would work on Windows (95-Vista), X-11, MacOs, DecWindows, and probably a bunch of others.

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Mark McIntyre

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