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I use the VBA tools built into Word... did it this afternoon as a matter of
fact. Designed a single dialog box to replace a nine-page "wizard". Other
times I've used the development tools the programming team uses... last
contract it was Visual FoxPro.
Mike
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From: "Karen" <ekarenski-techwrl -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:28 PM
Subject: Designing GUIs
>I have some ideas I want to show our programmer on how to modify the GUI of
>our beta application without resorting to drawing pictures. I've downloaded
>MS Visual Studio for C# and I know enough to get around and make the tabs,
>fields, and so on.
>
> I was wondering what others use to design prototype interfaces? I'm not
> looking for something that would be directly incorporated into the
> program--just something to visualize the front end menus and pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
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