That's a funny story...

KiXtart 2001 aside, everyone knows that OLE in KiXtart 3.63 is broken on Windows 9x. So in order to make KIXWIN32 work on 9x, I had to break (bend) some of OLE/COM rules... the end result is a COM object that only works for KiX !!!

KiXtart 2001 has revamped (working) COM and now it's too smart for it's own good (I mean that in a good way)... the old tricks I used in 3.63 to get it too work don't fool KiXtart 2001 anymore !!!

I'm not planning on developing KIXWIN32 forward into KiXtart 2001. It was mostly intended as a prototype to push the boundaries of kix scripting a little. But there are a couple of other irons in fire right now...

I was especially disappointed that the discussion about login windows in this thread ...

Need help with GUI under 9.x

didn't really pan-out into anything... deep within me lies the belief that a generic windows32 logon window would be a handy thing to have and a cool thing to develop.

The way I thought it would work is that the generic window would already be mapped out - and have a space for a bitmap (like a company logo), a space for a title and a subtitle, a document area (message box) to write text into, and a built-in progress bar... the close and cancel buttons and the window title would be programmable to support any language... that kind of thing ...

And the extra nice thing is that KiXtart 2001 makes the COM stuff so much easier and more natural now. This whole windows business would actually integrate quite well into a logon script, and not look so out-of-place...

-Shawn