Jason, Jan, Andreas,

As you have seen, STX gets mixed reviews, but it has supporters, and I
will look again.   

Thanks!

Bill




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Jason Johnson wrote:

Well I just took a look at it and it doesn't look bad. Free, has a
GUI builder, it sounded like it had an EXE builder. And besides
Strongalk it is the fastest Smalltalk, no?

On 8/12/07, Andreas Wacknitz <A.Wacknitz at ...> wrote:
> Jan Hussaarts wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > If you need recent releases for a specific platform, according to
> > their website you can mail Exept .
> > I'm not using STX for database access yet, but if necessary I would
> > probably try to use ODBC for SQLServer or PostgreSQL.
> When I checked the ODBC implementation it didn't worked at all. And
the
> comments said that only Oracle drivers were
> in a somehow supported state as there were only customers using Oracle
> databases.
> >
> > I do not understand what you mean by 'overhaul its tools'? I think
it
> > is pretty fast, compared to Squeak.
> According to the ST/X source comments all tools will be rewritten with
> the GUI builder (I don't remember the exact name).
> The old tools are hand coded. You can see some of the results in the
> configuration dialogs:
> the use of some of the newer tools are not yet recommended.
>
>
> Andreas

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