Dave,
I was thinking of the Mac when I said that, but I also know that
historically Duxbury has tried to maintain as much backward compatibility
as possible. I'm not even sure what DBT's development environment is, so I
can't comment on any problems there.
Steve
On Sunday 1/5/03 15:28 David Poehlman wrote:
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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