Re: Of Yarn and Source Code

From: Frank G. Pitt (frankie@mundens.gen.nz)
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:45:05 +1200

ciaran@dynamite.com.au (Ciaran Dunn) wrote:
>In article <eHQE14Fv5OUJ092yn@mundens.gen.nz>, you wrote:

>>Personally I'd like a GUI interface to Yarn, so that
>>I can do useful things like look at more than one mail
>>message at a time, and copy and paste between them.
>>
>>That's my end goal.
>
>Cool. Mine too :)

I don't think some people realize just how useful it is
to be able to open multiple articles or letters.
Currently, I get round the problem by saving stuff to files and
opening it in a texct editor, but multiple windows would
so much more useful.

>Ive started doing the same type of thing in C++.

My profesional experience is in C++, I thought I'd do this
in Java as a learning experience. I'd probably find it
easier to write the base classes in C++, I'm more used to
C++ streams than Java ones.

>Can I get your source code anywhere ?

Right now it's _really_ ugly, and I wouldn't recommend anyone uses it
as an example, but I'll mail it if you like.

>Need a hand ?

You mentioned you were investigating file formats, I have a few
of them, but right now I don't know how the history.pag
and history.dir files are put together.

-- 
Frankie

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