#: 20016 S1/General Interest
    11-Jun-94  09:18:08
Sb: #20015-HMI for OS-9
Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
To: Boisy G. Pitre 74464,3005 (X)

Boisy,

I've been in contact with them off and on for a couple of years.  The problem
is that they will not release specs for the HMI interface itself, and they will
not release sample source code, they will only release a compiled library of
functions for the mainstream DOS, Windows or Mac development platforms.  Maybe
Microware can do something about getting OSK libraries? I didn't get anywhere
with it, and neither have others like Amiga and Atari developers, and they've
tried a lot harder than I ever did.  I was looking at it strictly as a way to
make InfoXpress less prone to line noise, or changes in menus, but decided that
the effort to implement HMI was more than I really wanted to tackle (not to
mention CIS's disinterest in supporting a non standard platform).  If it was
available, I'd look into using it, and I'd be happy to add my support, as a
developer, for an OSK library. Please keep me posted.

-Bill-