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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>Recently
we got some interest on our “LSWST Squeak Windows-Bindings” which
we made a year ago.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>We
didn’t publish yet and finally decided first not do so.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>But
after rethinking the topic and observing the heavy frequency on the Squeak-ML
we may change our mind.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>We
don’t want to publish our work and loose any control over it. So we like
to publish a VM-extension <span class=GramE>( DLL</span> ) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><span
class=GramE><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
200%;font-family:Arial'>which</span></font></span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'> must be registered
with us but is available free of charge and is intended for non-commercial use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>Our
extension would enable to do native windows-programming with Squeak. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>We
will publish the core Windows-Bindings <span class=GramE>( <span class=SpellE>KernelDLL</span></span>,
GDIDLL, UserDLL )<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>but no high level
frameworks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>The
difficulty will be to create a general GUI framework which includes <span
class=SpellE>Morphic</span>-FW on Native Windows.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>Please
give us response whether we should resume this work (synchronization with the
BC-VM must be <span class=GramE>done )</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>We
have already moved over our whole development efforts to the .NET platform and
we are a small firm publishing can be in 1-2 months (after our LSW-Dotnet-Reflection-Browser
<span class=GramE>release )</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:200%'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Arial'>I
will be out of office today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Frank </span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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