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#30523From: Craig LongmanJul 11, 1994 12:10 PM
Waiting is nothing unusual when it comes to products from Microsoft! I did quickly scan over the article in a store, but haven't picked up the mag yet. I think it more deals with the Hieracheal ( wish WinCIM had a spell checker! ) list boxes. I am also working on a HierList class that will look something like that. Course, just as I get all this finished, Microsoft will again change the way things look. If I had a dime for every time the status line graph indicators change, I could retire. Perhaps it's useless trying to make anything look like the stuff in Microsoft products, because they never ( well, rarely at best ) look the same in two different apps anyway. For a company that harps on standards and CUA and a common LAF, they certainly go about things in a strange manner! \->CraigL Labatt Breweries of Canada
#30617From: Raindrop SoftwareJul 11, 1994 11:11 PM
I certainly agree with you. Microsoft has a funny tradition of making the industry follow them one step behind — they would never see the industry go step-in-step with them. Another good one is ctl3dv2.dll — they had it in their applications forever and when other developers finished incorporating them in their apps, MS put ctl3dv2.dll out for other developers. Now they have the tab dialogs — I am darn sure that the day I finish my tab dialog class (I am almost done with it), Microsoft will put that out for developers too ! Avinash.