[duxuser] Re: Duxbury and JAWS
- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:28:08 -0500
what other platforms, as I understand it, production for the mac has
stopped and there has not been a dos dbt for a long time. I think it
may have to do with the development environment though because it can be
quite costly to keep upgrading the development environment and also to
maintain backward compatibility with other operating systems as has been
proven by many including ms abandoning support for up to and including
windows.95.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dresser" <s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 2:11 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Duxbury and JAWS
On Sunday 1/5/03 13:48 Paul Hunt wrote:
>I believe we have focus issues because Duxbury isn't using a
>standard edit window. I would like confirmation of this and a reason
for not
>using standard edit windows.
As I understand it, Duxbury attempts to make its software platform
independent. One way to accomplish that is to write your own code
instead
of using MicroSoft's system calls. While things work pretty well most
of
the time, DBT occasionally exhibits some quirky behavior in the MS
Windows
environment. Of course, one problem is that MicroSoft keeps changing
the
operating system, and hence its behavior. Using their system calls
might
eliminate problems with Windows, but it would be impossible to keep DBT
platform independent.
Steve
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