[GEM Development] RE: GEM Dialog Problems

[Peter Green]

G'day, Scott!

Good to make your acquaintance!

I was originally trying out the various versions of GEM, and found 
myself also rabbitting on a bit about they symptoms of dysfunction that 
I was finding in the group at one time -- while everyone was wondering 
what to do with GEM, or whether it was worth pursuing, there was a lot 
of verbal milling around going on... My programming skills are limited 
to a reasonable facility with batch files and the odd bit of QuickBASIC 
(much more likely to succeed if I have a manual nearby.) All of that 
means that I have not contributed anything much of a more intensely 
technical nature.

I'm glad that you are looking at useful applications for GEM. Someone 
was dreaming -- on another forum I get involved in -- about criteria for 
"the ideal operating system", and I suggested that a good start was an 
OS for which a few useful programs were written.

Some time in 1998 (I think) I suggested that, if some of the Poms lived 
close enough to each other, they could have a GEM convention -- after 
all, if you can cross England for a Sunday afternoon's drive Owen 
couldn't be all that far from Liam. That never came off, but maybe we 
should have an Australian GEM convention if Chris ever gets back to 
Sydney. I'm sure we could find a table for three at the Marly...

Peter





Scott McDonald wrote:

>Hi Peter and Chris,
>
>My goal with application development is to make OpenGEM a useful tool, to me
>that means at leasta database and an editor with a slightly more modern approach
>than what was written around 20 years ago.
>
>After that, tackling Email would be the next obvious step, but while I am
>familiar with Winsock programming, doing it with a DOS PPP stack is a complete
>unknown.
>
>As I haven't yet been inundated with Pascal programmers telling their stories I
>guess most things will be trial and error and while the official AES and VDI
>documents in the SDK are great they still seem to leave a lot to the imagination.
>
>By the way, I'm in Stanmore which is rather close.
>
>Scott McDonald
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