Re: Is RPG dying

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Push buttons?  Ya want push buttons?!?!?

:)

http://www.martinvt.com/Older_Code/Push_Button/push_button.html

done in CL.

My dim memory is that even the alt-underlined letter works.

The program isn't dated, but the image is an OS/2 screen shot, so we are 
talking the late 1990s, right?



On 2/21/2012 6:05 PM, James Lampert wrote:
> Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > Y'all
> >
> > Ever since I started with VB3 in the mid-90s, I've heard about
> > event-driven programming. And I made the leap to, pressing a function
> > key is a kind of event - not all that different from pressing a button
> > in a GUI - and, hey, if you have PCOMM and turn on hotspots, it IS
> > pressing a button in a GUI!!
>
> You don't need no stinking PCOMM to get hotspots: a 3487, 3488, or 3489
> will get you hotspots, if you have a mouse to fit it (and an enhanced
> Twinax controller to run it). (Note: an InfoWindow II mouse will work
> just fine as a PS/2 mouse, but the other way around does NOT work!)
>
> And it will also get you programmable mouse buttons. And various GUI
> constructs (I know for a fact that radio button blocks are fully
> supported; I had to model the radio button support in OUR TN5250e client
> on SOMETHING, and I've always tried to either follow, or slightly
> improve upon, "the authentic instrument".)
>
> The very worst mistake an RPG instructor can possibly make (unless
> he/she is actually TRYING to kill the language) is to not teach The
> Cycle as anything other than something to bypass or disable!
>
> --
> JHHL