Using ClearWin for commercial applications.

Would you recommend using the ClearWin GUI for commercial applications? Or...would a product such as Winteracter be better suited for this?

James,

I use the clearwin gui with OpenGL graphics for writing commercial applications. Overall I am extremely pleased with the result. Users are completely unaware that the source code is 100% Fortran. Okay, in places I've been forced to use calls to the windows API (e.g capturing the graphics of the OpenGL window to send to the clipboard or a file). There are some areas that I wish FTN95 did better like the treeview, because as it stands it's useless to my requirements. But otherwise I have no problems with the gui.

I hope others agree with me.

John

John

Have you tried using %bv for your treeview?

Hi Paul,

My version of FTN95 is a few years old now, I'd have to purchase an upgrade to get %bv. I've looked at the latest help files on %bv , but I'm still not sure if it could easily manage to meet my requirements. In CAD and FEA software a treeview is often used to navigate around the constituent parts of the model. The treeview is very dynamic, it expands as new parts are created, parts are listed according to their heirarchy and associativity with points (vertices) as the lowest form of entity, with lines (curves/edges) above the points, then faces (surfaces) and finally volumes at the top of the tree. As you can appreciate there may be tens of thousands of entities involved when a complex CAD part is imported. I use virtual common to great affect when defining arrays, can %bv be used in a similar fashion ?

thanks, John

John

In principle yes it should be OK but it may require some clever programming. %bv is basically a wrapper for the Microsoft treeview with most of its functionality.