In a message dated 02-0995, David Hooker said to Jonathan De Boyne Pollar:

 Jd> Borland lost out heavily to the
 Jd>   C++Views and Zinc A/Fs of this world, and (more significantly) to the
 Jd>   ICLUIs and ObjectPMs.

DH|Do you / have you used ObjectPM??  I use it now, and in many ways I feel
  |that it is vastly inferrior to OWL / BIDS.

I'm not that familiar with OWL/2 ... but I *am* very familiar with
ObjectPM. I'm interested (honestly) as to why think this, and where you
find it "inferrior".  Having experience with other C++ and/or GUI
frameworks, I find it a productive environment.  Again, I don't know much
about OWL, but I've been told it's a "very thin" wrapper over API
calls.  And then it doesn't support CUA'91 controls, nor threads, nor any
other OS/2-specific feature, as it's a based on the lower "Windows
denominator".

I *have* done Windows coding using C++/Views and found it to be pretty
"weak".

What's BIDS?

Nick

.. It's OS/2, Jim, but not OS/2 as we know it. -- MR/2 2.19a #0

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