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   Alex Taylor to All   
   Dynamic windows (Re: Whither LVM replace   
   30 Mar 11 07:30:01   
   
   s2.ecomstation,comp.os.os2.misc   
   comp.os.os2.beta:91 comp.os.os2.ecomstation:894 comp.os.os2.misc:3096   
   From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:04:54 UTC, Brian Smith  wrote:   
      
   > It has not been abandoned... I was busy with some other projects so   
   > hadn't had a lot of time to dedicate to it, but Mark has been doing a   
   > good job of maintaining it.  I've spent a bunch of time on it   
   > lately... most of the time spent porting to the Mac using Cocoa and   
   > rewriting the GTK version for GTK3.  However new features have been   
   > added with code and suggestions from Mark on all platforms. (There are   
   > a couple features still missing from the OS/2 version... like the   
   > embeddable browser and calendar controls).  But anything that OS/2 has   
   > support for I will try to keep up-to-date.   
      
   OK, that's good to know.     
      
      
   > What isn't it sophisticated enough to do?  I'd be happy to add support   
   > for anything I can.   
      
   Off the top of my head, the main hurdles I ran into at the time were    
   lack of support for app-modal dialogs, and that I couldn't find any   
   way to hook up a scrollbar to a custom canvas (although that one may   
   have been a documentation issue).   
      
      
      
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   Alex Taylor   
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