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

In the GUI arena, I don't think that the way forward is that complicated or

mysterious.  Here some choices:



1) An APL vendor with large resources and a better idea can make the 
substantial investment required to create a superior  way to handle GUI,
or 
they can



2)  Use industry standard techniques for creating GUIs, which in the
Windows 
world is Visual Studio.   VS has the added advantage that it's a free 
download (in the form of VB or C# Express).  Dyalog has demonstrated the 
ability of their .Net interpreter to work in concert with VS, but hasn't 
given  much publicity to the actual techniques involved.  The gist is that

you use the Visual Studio WYSIWYG forms designer to call APL callback 
functions.  I've successfully created simple applets using  this approach,

but haven't subjected it to the rigors of a sophisticated GUI.  Initially 
there are sure to be  limitations and awkward aspects to the marriage. 
However, if these could be overcome then forms design skills learned in
the 
non-APL world would be interchangeable with those required in the APL
world, 
which to my mind at least would be a highly desirable situation.



3) Or both can be done.  However I'm not sure how one can sensibly avoid 
the 2nd approach since it requires so many fewer resources than the first.





-jim goff