Hey not had a chance to look at JNA.
Well the whole OWL thing was down to reading several articals of the time that came out in favour of OWL being somewhat better put together, and more logically organised then MFC. I could be wrong, but I also got the impression at the time OWL existed before MFC came along.
Admittedly I was more likley to such articals as I prefered, and still prefer Borland compilors over MS ones (Along with their associated
IDE's).
As to avoiding programming windows apps outside of
something like delphi, you obivously missed that it was a
personaly opinion, and that I said
something like delphi, this would include VB, and to a lesser degree C++ Builder and an even lesser degree VC++. I am sure there were other visual tools of the time, but for my money, Delphi was the one to chose, it was object orinetated, and a compiled language, unlike VB. (Which didnt get decent object support until about version 6, was based on basic, and required a runtime library, and we all know what BASIC stands for).
I will get back to JNA just as soon as i get 5minutes to myself. It is probably exactly what I am looking for, I just want to know when a file is added, deleted, or moved. I want to write a file manager application, as I am sick of having to fight with teh current crops I want one that works like I do. Also I am hopeing it will be easier for non techies, but thats for another day.
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