As I feared, Herbie. Seems nothing is ever easy, much as we try and  
hope it will be.

It WAS short and sweet. (smile)

Joe Wilkins

On Jun 21, 2008, at 3:11 AM, H. Gluender wrote:

> Joe,
>
> if you take a look at the FB-runtimes you will realize that most  
> calls that FB _adds_ to the original BASIC language access Apple's  
> API routines. (Please remember that classic programming languages  
> per se don't provide GUI routines -- with this respect, they are  
> platform independent -- and, as mentioned before, even their IO  
> routines are confined to a minimum. In contrast, IDEs normally  
> include GUI access etc.) Of course, in the first place this concerns  
> windows, text fields and buttons that require the Mac toolbox, today  
> called API.
>
> Have a nice weekend including the shortest night of the year
> -- 
>
>                  Herbie