Re: A question to the APL vendors on Windows GUIs ...

I agree , but I would hope you'd agree that the ".s" context in A+ is
more than sweet ! .. probably impossible to implement under Windows
without massive resources ! The Dyalog GUI and APLX implementations
under WIndows are both excellent, apart from the limitations imposed
by having to stick to STD Windows GUI of course !

While we're on the subject of Windows interfacing, here is a small
collection of []NA  functions that I use occasionally under Dyalog ...

[]NA'I user32.C32|SetCapture I'
[]NA'I user32.C32|ReleaseCapture'
[]NA'I user32.C32|WindowFromPoint I I'
[]NA'I user32.C32|GetCursorPos >I[2]'
[]NA'I user32.C32|SetCursorPos I I'
[]NA'I user32.C32|ScreenToClient I =3DI[2]'
 'smgih' []NA'I4 user32.C32|SendMessageA I4 U I4 =3D{U U U U I4 I4 I4 I4
I4 I4}'
[]NA'I2 user32.C32|GetKeyState I'
'smht'[]NA'I4 user32.C32|SendMessageA I4 U I4 =3D{I[2] U I4}'
'smsh'[]NA'I4 user32.C32|SendMessageA I4 U I4 U'
[]NA'I2 user32.C32|GetKeyboardState >I1[256]'
[]NA'u kernel32|GetDiskFreeSpaceExA <0T >u[2] >u[2] >u[2]'
'beep'[]NA'user32=1DMessageBeep i'
[]NA'U4 user32|GetCaretPos >{I I}'

=2E.. some of which were supplied in the Dyalog "help" , others I found
elsewhere.

Also, on using Drag-and-Drop ..
Someone donated an excellent little Drag-and-Drop tool-suite for use
within Dyalog which utilzed
the following []NA items ( amongst others) GetCursorPos,
WindowFromPoint, ScreenToClient etc.
( concerning Drag-and-Dropping single items from/to various List-types
etc. )
Something that I found very useful , enlightening and timesaving !
The use of the CGView.dll for managing various Image-types should IMO
be online for APlers to see as well !


There are certainly many more []NA functions and other little tid-bits
that would be more than useful to developers !

I would have liked to have seen a larger "Collection" made available
online , e.g. the Dyalog website,
to assist APL developers in their work, rather than each of us having
to "search for them ourselves" !

Maybe such a collection already exists ????