Re: Programming Question

[jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu (Jason Simmons)]

In article <db76682@pro-gumbo.cts.com> tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>In <uerics.734034102@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
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>>Do _NOT_ buy Design Master.  It does _not_ work well at all, and hasn't
>>been fixed during the three years or more that I've owned it.
>
>Could you expand on this a bit?  I've heard this many times but no one ever
>says just what it is that doesn't work well.  I own/use Design Master and
>although I mainly use it for creating dialogs and such, I haven't noticed
>any problems with it.  While we're at it, are there any other programs similar
>to this one?  Creating large dialogs by hand and getting everything lined up
>and spaced correctly can be such a bore in assembler.

I find that Design Master's source code often has excess empty space and
comments.  I have also occasionally received source and resources which
required modification before they would work.  Alternatives include
Genesys and Foundation.  If you do not mind working with resources in
hexadecimal or string format, there's also the shareware LLRE.

Jason Simmons
jsimmons@sbcs.sunysb.edu