Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/10/00:09:52
Hi Ricki,
you wrote:
> I am a beginner but i want to play with gui
> programs. is sword the best library for that?
> thanks
This is true but with some remarks. SWORD is a powerful system for
dedicated programmers. You can learn GUI development with SWORD - it
was specially designed for this, but at this moment documentation is
not clear for beginners. Also SWORD rapidly improves now by team of
volunteers and soon will have different object scheme than previous
versions (I mean v.2.10 and v.2.50).
If these difficulties don't touch you, you are welcome to the SWORD
world :). As a member of SWORD development team I'll help you, but, as
Eli said before, if question formulated clearly and if you understand
what do you want. (I learned SWORD without anybody's help and only
after approximately half of year I found in Internet Eric Nicolas - an
author of original SWORD).
There are three different version of SWORD exists now.
-- 1st is an original SWORD 2.10 developed by Eric Nicolas (you can
find it on the any Simtel mirror in djgpp/v2tk/ directory)
-- 2nd is our project SWORD 2.50b with improvements and bug fixes (it
available at http://www.bspu.unibel.by/sword/)
-- 3nd is latest SWORD 3.0beta03 (beta04 will be published soon). As
for last version - it is new stage in SWORD evolution. All classes are
completely rewritten, SWORD 3.0 has good portability - it compiles
either under Unix or Windows and now under MS DOS - thanks to Robert
Hoehne for his port of GCC 2.8.0 because new SWORD has massive using
of exception handling. But this edition of SWORD always in beta state
(even in alpha, if we say about graphics gadgets). It is
available at http://193.55.36.92/enicolas/sword/
So, you can choose your way itself. I suggest you start with SWORD
2.50 and get power of SWORD 3.0 later, when stable and more powerful
GUI gadgets will be implemented in it. Also you can subscribe to SWORD
mailing list using http://homepages.enta.net/~basoft/ in the section
"New features development".
Sincerely,
Alexander Bokovoy, <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by>
--=== The Soft Age coming soon ===--
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