Re: How to pick a window?

[thompson(at)achilles.nascom.nasa.gov (William Thompson)]

davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:

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>P.S. Let's just say if IDL weren't first written
>in Neanderthal times we would *all* be using widgets
>as windows. Sheesh!

Let me just say that if IDL were written as an environment where everything
*had* to be done as a widget program, we probably would *not* be using IDL
today.  We'd be using something else more forgiving.  And I say this as someone
who's written a fair number of widget programs in his time.

William Thompson