[HECnet] FMS, SMG$, Windowing/Forms on a Text Terminal

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:

On 01/10/2013 14:37, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> writes:

Very interesting! I have played a little with SMG$ as part of
Retrochallenge, and looked at the other projects, but as hinted there is
a steep learning curve with a lot of the products that is bound to put
most off.
Are you saying that there is a steep learning curve to SMG$?

Not SMG$ so much but it does seem to get steep when you start talking 
about DECforms and the like. I guess what I'm saying is I've not yet 
progressed passed SMG$.

Well, they are completely different beasts.   I prefer the finer granulatiry 
and programatic control of SMG$.   FMS and DECforms provided, more or less, 
a pre-canned approach to developing terminal based input forms.   There much
much more available using SMG$.

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