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Most users know that DMAC’s graphical record format creation program, Rfmouse, was created back in 1996 to bring GUI (Graphical User Interface) to the then popular MSDOS. With great fanfare, DMAC bragged how easy it was going to be to have both 32 BIT and UNIX/LINUX GUI within a short time. Wrong! It has taken five years to move Rfmouse to the 32 bit environment.

The problems were many. The software interface supplier (ZINC) went out of business. The software was buggy. It would run on Windows 95 but not Windows NT. The diskettes were lost for a year in the move from one firehouse to the next. DMAC’s younger developers wanted to rewrite the code using the WIN32 application program interface.

Well, this past summer Paul sat down and finished the conversion to the WIN32 api using what parts of ZINC he could. He got it to link and begin execution. Then Fred took it home and played with it at night until it would pass quality assurance.

Looks better. Runs as a WIN32 application. Of course, the JAVA based code of WebBase has to do it another way. Same features as before. Where do we go from here? Depends upon the feedback and reaction to the new listbox verb.