Cscape, anybody using it?

[Dave Eisen]

In article <72 at mnopltd.UUCP> gatech!stiatl!mnopltd!neal writes:
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>->If you are using it in the UNIX or Xenix enviroent, PLEASE HELP US and just
>->respond with a quick "Ya", "Na" and perhaps a helpful explaination.  Are you

I give it mixed reviews.

We use C-Scape 3.0 (at least 3.1 is out, I don't know how they differ) in 
a Xenix (SCO Xenix 2.2.3) environment on 386 boxes to write user interfaces 
to the database programs we write.

It does do the job. The users can enter data and C-scape converts it to
whatever data type is appropriate. It also handles whatever cursor
movement and field protection issues we need to address. And it is reasoably
fast.

On the down side, it is somewhat clumsy to write code for it. But maybe
that's just a function of the complexity of the interfaces we need
and any other system would be just as bad or worse. 

And the biggest drawback of all --- the code is very buggy. We've had to 
fix up a bunch of things to get it to work reasonably. I wouldn't consider
getting it without getting the source code.

>->using Look&Feel too?!?
>->

We have it and one of my colleagues used it in a dos environment. It
doesn't work in Xenix.




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