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  This is one of the many applications around which create an environment around which people who can't program the WIMP can create WIMP (Windows Icons Menus & Pointer) programs.
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  EventShell looks very nice and seems to have been built in a solid fashion (even though the omnipresent 'This is a Shareware package' (which makes it what David Holden appropriately terms Nagware) messages do get on my nerves more than a little), but the thing about all of these wimp shell applications (EventShell certainally isn't the only one, or even now the most well known) is that they do really very little for so much work.
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 Their prinicpal is on attaching events to operations. You can tell EventShell 'whenever the user clicks on that icon, run this procedure' to provide an interface to the programmer from the desktop. However, all that this does is save you decoding the Wimp_Poll reason code and whatever is returned in the poll block to give you more specific information; in short, it doesn't save you much work at all. Quite frankly, you'd get a much better picture of how the desktop works if you read the manuals on the wimp and wrote desktop programs without a shell, all of which wouldn't take up a great deal of time when making software.
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Author: Paul Hobbs<br>
Status: Says it's Shareware (reg. 5). I call it Nagware.<br>
Availability: PD libraries should have a copy<br>
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