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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >> The screen shots were mockups?   
   >>   
   > If you mean the ones here:   
   > http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/os2/toolkits/lvm/redesign/   
   > Then yes, they were drawn in MS Paintbrush.   
   >   
      
   That's a shame.  They looked good.   
      
   > I did later create a simple prototype application that could actually    
   > read the current disks and display something like the GUI depicted    
   > above with real data from the system.   
   >   
      
   It's interesting to hear of a case where the obstacle is the GUI    
   programming.  Usually it's the application logic proper, the "model"    
   part of the Model-View-Controller triple.  (-:   
      
   You should be able to work something up with mostly ordinary controls,    
   no GPI needed.  The stuff at the top left looks doable with just a    
   standard container control.  Similarly, the stuff at the top right is    
   just a collection of statics and a listbox (or another container).  It's    
   really only the graphical bar representations of disc space where you'd    
   have to become involved with GPI.  And it's not that onerous.  It's not    
   as if you'd be drawing complex polygons or curves.  A subclassed static    
   control and some rectangle drawing and text drawing should be enough.   
      
   Ironically, the GUI version of the utility would be a lot easier to work    
   up, in the above manner, than the TUI version that you mocked up.  A TUI    
   program would need a whole extra library to provide the basic windows,    
   controls, message processing and suchlike, the stuff that Presentation    
   Manager does for a GUI application without the application needing to.     
   (I speak from experience.  I wrote one.  If you've used the MORE command    
   from my 32-bit CMD, you've seen it in action.)   
      
      
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