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Re: Interactive screen mockup program



 Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> neither. I'm looking for a way that I can mock up the behavior of a 
> screen, but in a more stand-alone context. If it is tied to designing a 
> web interface, qt or gtk, that would be fine.  That is what I mentioned 
> Bricklin's Demo. 
> 
> The problem I have is trying to do something in the product I'm working 
> with where there is very limited documentation. for instance, to have a 
> pulldown menu, I define an enumeration in the C++ class. I then assign 
> a type value to it as well as a property value. There is a text based 
> config file that ties both the property and type values to attributes 
> recognized by the product. My .so can access the current value of the 
> enumeration, but it cannot control it. What I want to do is to describe 
> graphically what I want to do. If I were designing a web application, a 
> qt (or KDE), or GTK application, or even a basic X application, I would 
> have a set of widgets that I could operate with or extend. I guess I 
> could do it with. But, I could describe what I want in basic text. With 
> a Bricklin-style program, I can communicate with the person who is 
> designing the specs who really does not know our product that well by 
> saying "is this what you would like to see?", and the development 
> group, in how can I get FOO to do something like this. 


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