How usable are the graphics functions in the Windows environment ?
The graphics functionality is designed for DOS based applications and originates from the time when there was very little in the way of available libraries. Under Windows 95/98/NT or Solaris, there are now a large number of libraries and other applications that provide this functionality and we have no intention of competing with them. As a company we use 3 main packages that provide varying levels of graphical handling capabilities, these are : Microsoft Visual C/C++, Visual Basic and Hewlett-Packard’s VEE. The latter is a very very good package and you can get a free working demonstration from their web site. If you do decide to use a package like C++ then you will find, as we do, that the standard SigLib graphics libraries provide a lot of functionality that you can pull into your application.
