Re: Personal Rexx (Quercus) or what?

On Apr 30, 11:03 pm, Jeff Glatt <jgl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
LurfysMa
How does Object Rexx compare to Reginald Rexx?
What about the editor / developer environment?

As the developer/maintainer of Reginald and all its tools, I can assure you
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Now as for a comparison to Object REXX. IBM's version of Object REXX did have a
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When IBM open-sourced Object REXX, it had a licensing problem with its IDE. So
you no longer get that dialog editor with ooREXX. You can still run scripts
that contain instructions to create a UI, and they will create that UI. (This
is what is meant when someone says it still supports ooDialog). But if you want
to create your own UI, you don't do it from a dialog editor. You have to
manually write those REXX instructions to create the UI yourself.

This seems to be a prevalent myth.

While it is true the IBM Object REXX IDE was not open sourced, it is
untrue that you have to manually write REXX instructions to create the
UI when using ooDialog.

ooDialog supports using a resource script file (*.rc), using a
compiled resource in a DLL, or dynamically coding the instructions for
the UI. That hasn't changed.

You can use *any* available Windows resource editor and / or resource
compiler to create a resource script or a DLL to use with ooDialog.
There are a number of good, free resource editors available. And,
there are a number of very good, inexpensive resource editors
available.

Coding a UI by hand is tedious, I would always use a resource editor.
There is no reason to code an ooDialog UI by hand, unless you simply
want to.

--
Mark Miesfeld

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