Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Scribble Revisited

In school we learn simple programming... Ok, nowadays maybe Java. I was learning C and C++. And in the "real world" back then, Visual C++ was hot new item back then. Programming in Windows was HARD in those days. And Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) is supposed to be there to save the day? You may have remember this Scribble example. Gosh did I panic: real world programming is so hard and ugly!

See http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/vcpp/scribble.html.

Download that source code and see how UGLY and DIFFICULT this mess is. SO MUCH work to get a scribble going.

HTML5 can do it in so few lines and so straight forward. See http://fahadmustafa.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/scribble-app-with-html5/

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